Alastair’s mind reels at these dark images now imprinted in his mind's eye forever.

These images, in complete juxtaposition of the reality he’d constructed using the apparent falsehoods his parents were feeding him for years, rip through his memories with a vengeance. He feels sick.

Alastair looks up at Virdia to find a complicated mix of pride and curiosity. He realizes at once that she has not seen the visions. She doesn’t know. Her vendetta against their ...