We stepped into the private room behind my throne before I realized I had no idea of two things. One, who the blue spark was intended for-if, as I suspected, Adam's green spark experience was going to lend itself to a pattern-and two, if the red spark also had a home.

Because despite their delight at returning to Chaos, that disjoined and separate feeling of them remained, telling me it was likely their existence was, as I suspected, tied to the nine and nine.

Who ...