Gadon gaped at him. “Why would your father do that? How do you know?”
Callum told them what he’d found in the basement, how Chaos had been chained up, how he’d found the open books with the illustrations of the Alkaline in them. He told them about the map of the airplane hangar, too.
“He was going to cut out Chaos’s heart to power the device?” Gabi asked, looking green.
At his name, the wolf looked up at Callum and whined. Callum nodded.
“But you didn’t see it anywhere? The Alkaline itself?” Gadon asked.Callum shook his head. “I didn’t know it was a real thing. I didn’t know what he was doing or what he wanted Chaos for.” He didn’t mention the boy-size shackles on the wall. He was prepared to tell some of the truth but not all of it. He wasn’t sure where that fell on the Evil Overlord
