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I push up fro you back to Chester’s" He pauses then says, "Where ill contain you with the stones"

I stiffen "You just gaveto shut ht do to me, or the Book It could put us both in suspended aniht it"

"It nizant Trapped Forever," I say sharply I’d accepted this fate once before But I washeadway I was certain I could win this battle, if I just had enough time

"You said yourself you don’t know if the Book will seize control of you again the moment it awakens"

My jaw juts "Maybe I’ve beat it"

"I don’t like this any more than you do, Mac"

"I’m bloody well certain I like it far less," I say heatedly "You’re not the one about to get locked away"

"No, I’ locked away There’s no possibility I ht be suspended while you suffer I’ll be aware of every bloody moment of it"

I wince Put that way, it sounds a lot like what he went through with his son

"Ryodan’s out of play, Jada’s holding it together by sheer force of will, the sidhe-seers are in a co mess, and we have no idea how to stop the black holes We need so e" His dark gaze shutters "You’ve not yet done anything as the Book that you won’t be able to forgive yourself for," he says carefully "In time"

I’m still so pissed off by his "off our plate" coetable to be scraped into a Tupperware container and stuck in the fridge "Then what? I wait passively until you either save the world or don’t? And if you do, you’ll free et sucked into oblivion by a black hole?" I say irritably I don’t want to be locked away I don’t want to be passive I wasted weeks ofmiserably passive and defeatist Belatedly, his final comment sinks in and I stare up at him, horrified, because he justto hatewave of remorse I’ve killed someone Someone I knew Someone that mattered to me I close my eyes