He rested for a day, until he could get out of bed without getting sick everywhere and then Aarav threw him into some of the hardest learning he’d ever done. With perhaps the exception of third level calculus in college. These lessons were mental as well as physical and he ended every day exhausted.

But every day he got closer to seeing her again and that drove him on, kept him going through some very long days. Finally, he was able to move from the Lyceum to his uncle’s ...