“What element am I going to emerge with?” “We don’t know, Tessa. Your assessments were inconclusive.” “And you will use me to help your father take over Devram?” “No, beautiful. You’ll help me kill my father.” “So you can have Devram?” Darkness hovered around him like a faint mist, and she could swear it reached for her when he said, “No, Tessa. So I can have the Underground, and they can have Devram.”
