I look back at the moment Josef and I parted down in the ruined Djinn city and think I made a mistake. I still had my knife at my belt. We were close enough. I could have stabbed him there and then, saved us all the pain and trouble. The consequences of that mistake shaped so much of my life and of everyone around me. But at the time I didn't see it as a mistake. At the time, I refused to see what Josef had become.

