If you've known about him and the Planeless, Ahbi's sharp anger cut through my spinning mind, why did you not act well before now?

"We've tried," Bakari said. "We've been trying for over a year."

I'd never felt so shaken and vulnerable as I did sitting there, with the understanding even those who thought themselves all-powerful had failed. Maybe I should have felt better about myself and my own disasters, but I didn't.

Their inability just made things ...