“Because if your best friend sees this memory, everything is lost,” he interrupts, and I gasp. “You don’t know that—” “Dain wouldn’t break a rule to save your life, Violet. What do you think he’d do if he had this knowledge?” What would Dain do? “I have to believe he would not put the Codex above people suffering beyond our borders. Or maybe I could have built shields that would have kept Dain from prying.

