No, Tadek would have thrown himself into it with his eyes open. He would have known what he was getting himself into, at least well enough to know that it hadn’t involved an exchange of hearts. He would have had a map for that wilderness—but Evemer had no map, and both he and his heart were already lost … Except for Kadou, burning like the compass star, the center of his sky that all the heavens turned around, steady and constant enough for Evemer to set his course by.

