Page 43 (2/2)

"Death has killed him before Your best play is to seduce your protector into bringing you the Emperor’s head We can hope both will fall in the clash"

My fists balled Inside, I pri nowhere with her

"Until you fully eainst the Emperor I can’t teach you to develop powers you don’t yet possess"

Not the first ti for information about my parents She was my last link to Moirl?"

"Stubborn Refusing to believe as right before her eyes! Like you"

I was proud to be like my mother "What about my dad? Mom used to talk about him a lot, but over time I heard less and less"

"David Greene was kind, and he had a sense of huh"

That was all Gran couldbeliever in Tarot Huland," she added, as if that explained everything "I’d been wearing Karen down about the Arcana--until she nant Even then, I sensed you were the Empress"

"He didn’t want us to live up north?"

"David planned to reat Eone over well "In the end, I convinced theo"

My dad had disappeared in the Basin just two years after I was born If he’d insisted onnorth, would he still be alive? Or would he have been--at least until the Flash? I " Twenty-nine

She nodded "Thatas much as Karen: you"

Mom had toldoutside: energy, a faint thru Circe was here--just down the ether right now? If so, I would drop in on their"I’ll be back" I rose and headed toward the door