Of course, there’s a catch.
“What is it?” I ask.
“No contact with the outside world. If you go down to the Wheeler Institute, you can’t reach out to Walker, your mother, or anyone else. Officially, you’re staying here with me and meditating. End of story. Can you do that?”
I’ve spent most of my youth sneaking around on my mother, so this is no biggie to me. “Sure, that won’t be a problem.”
Lincoln does that chin-nod thing that guys do. “Same here.”
My brain tries to process all this news so fast, my head starts to hurt. “Before we go any further, let me get this straight. Acca has stolen the Rixa Codex. It’s probably hidden away at the Wheeler Institute, where there’s a handy-dandy Acca patrol to guard it while they’re also looking for Lucifer’s coin. And, oh by the way, if they find
