"They're going to find me, Rook. I'm a tired old man, running doesn't suit me. Listen...I know I've been a ghost. But, Lex, that school...those kids. They...they ain't...natural. Archimedes doesn't even exist anymore. Run, take her and run. Meet me..."

Weston's last voice message ended. The first time I'd heard from him in years. I started to think he faked his own death, moved to that island he'd always yell about, drunk in the cruiser working a double. I would nod my head like a ...