You know I cannot tell you that. He is no longer your Jem. He is Brother Zachariah now. You must forget him. “Forget him? I cannot forget him,” Charlotte said. “He is not as your other Brothers, Enoch; you know that.” The rituals that make a Silent Brother are our deepest secrets. “I am not asking to know of your rituals,” Charlotte said. “Yet I know that most Silent Brothers sever their ties to their mortal lives before they enter the Brotherhood. But James could not do that. He still has that which tethers him to this world.” She looked down at Tessa, her eyelids fluttering as she breathed
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