My brain stuttered, tried to fire up, stalled out. This wasn't right, this wasn't possible. I just saw him, laughing and playing basketball with his friends, spoke to him. Well, didn't manage a word, but he spoke to me. And despite Kael's attempt to make me afraid and the lingering darkness of depression I'd felt in the young man, I knew one thing for certain. I doomed Adam to a Life he wasn't supposed to live, but that Life was his. Adam couldn't die.

Could he?

I must ...