Cale dragged Lysandra around to a few other places after that, asking around about Mason Viatrix and where he had gone. Lysandra stopped paying attention. She stumbled after him and tried not to think about this new gap in her memory, but it was the only thing on her mind. Who would go after her, after all she had been through? Could she find them and force them to give her the memories back?

"Lysandra," Cale said after a few streets had gone by, "are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm ...