You.” His gaze lifted to me, and I swallowed. “You have had many strings. Many different paths. But they all ended the same.” A chill skated down my spine. “How?” “Sometimes, it’s better not to know,” he answered. Penellaphe drifted closer. “But, sometimes, knowledge is power.” I nodded. “I want to know.” A brief, fond smile appeared, and then Holland said, “Your paths have always ended in your death before you even saw twenty-one years of life.”