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Call flashed hot and cold all over It was exactly what he’d been thinking, but now that Tamara had said it out loud, he didn’t want to believe it "Why would my father have the wristband of the Enemy of Death? Hoould he have it?"

"How old is your father?"

"He’s thirty-five," Call said, wondering what that had to do with anything

"Basically the sae as Constantine Madden They would have been at school together And the Enemy could have left his wristband behind when he escaped froisterium" Tamara pushed herself to her feet and started to pace "He rejected everything about school He wouldn’t have wanted it Maybe your father picked it up, or found it somehow Maybe they even -- knew each other"

"There’s no way He would have toldeven as he said it that it wasn’t true Alastair never talked about the Magisteriuuely and to describe how sinister it was

"Rufus said he knew the Enee to Rufus," said Aaron "It had toto your father and to Rufus It would make e?" Call deic Right?"

"So they’d send me home! So I’d be safe!"

"Maybe," said Ta other people safe froave a sick thump inside his chest

"Tamara," said Aaron "You’d better explain what you mean"

"I’m sorry, Call," she said, and she really did look sorry "But the Eneisteriu friendly to anyone or anything but another Chaos-ridden" Aaron started to protest, but Tamara held up her hand "Reht on the bus? About how there’s a rumor that some of the Chaos-ridden have normal eyes? And if someone was born Chaos-ridden, then maybe that person wouldn’t be blank inside Maybe they’d seem normal Like Havoc"

"Call isn’t one of the Chaos-ridden!" Aaron said loudly "That stuff Celia was saying, about Chaos-ridden creatures that look normal -- there’s no proof that’s even real And besides, if Call was Chaos-ridden, he’d know Or I’d know I’ht? He’s not He’s just not"

Havoc bounded over to Call, see He whined a little, eyes pinwheeling

Alastair’s words echoed in Call’s mind

Call, you must listen to me You don’t knohat you are