A few days later, Nicholas, Alexander, and I were sitting in my room. By now I’d set up a small table and had a few cushioned chairs to go along with it, so we were settled in and deep in a discussion on how the new plan was going.

Nicholas wore a contemplative, regretful frown, no doubt a bit down since he had to play the trickery card on someone he really was hoping may be innocent in this. I wasn’t sure about Misty, but she worked with Remus, who I had a really bad ...