One Saturday afternoon in February, I was hanging out at the Darken’s house. I was watching TV while the guys were off doing whatever they were doing when Aiden headed in the living room with me. “Hey, you,” he said with a grin. “Hey.” I smiled back at him. “I have a question for you.” He rested on the arm of the sofa. “Alright, hit me.” “I was just wondering… have you figured out who I might have been yet?” I asked. “You know. Of the Ancients, I mean.” “Maybe.” “Maybe?” I asked with raised eyebrows. A little bit of excitement came over me, though. The fact that he might have figured it out had me feeling a little optimistic—even if it was just a maybe at this point. “So, I was up the other night researching and thinking about this, and I do have a theory as to who you could be,

