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He flipped through and noticed quite a few pages full of text. Gina led him to the kitchen and began whipping up a meal while he sat down to read.

The first few pages said that they believed Atreya would go to war in a matter of months and elaborated upon their decision to seek the Vanguard’s help. Roman advised Hector not to follow, as they apparently didn’t know where their travels might lead them.

The later pages were in different handwriting, more feminine, and it soon identified itself as Voreese’s words through the Queen’s pen. It offered details on aberrations.

‘Ah,’ said Garovel upon reading it from over Hector’s shoulder. ‘Voreese remembered my inquiry. She’s more thoughtful than I would have expected. I’ll have to thank her the next time we meet.’

‘Aberrations grow stronger the more people they kill,’ Hector summarized.

‘I suppose that explains why Geoffrey seemed more powerful.’

Hector’s mouth twisted as he scowled. ‘He’s been killing even more people... and he’s not going to stop.’

‘With everything that’s happened, you may be the only person in Atreya who can kill Geoffrey right now.’

‘I’m not so sure I can. It’s been two weeks. He’s probably even stronger now.’

‘It doesn’t really matter as long as Abolish is protecting him.’

‘I need to train...’

‘Let’s go back to Brighton first. You’ve been gone too long, as it is.’

Gina placed a plate full of pancakes in front of him. Then came eggs, sausage, waffles, hash browns, toast, strawberries, cantaloupe, wheat cereal, and a single banana.

He watched her as if she were bringing him solid gold bars.

“Master Roman said you’d be hungry.”

“You... are amazing...”

“I know.”

He dove into his meal.

Gina sat down to eat with him. “So what’s your deal, anyway?” she said, biting into a waffle.