Vix was stunned. “But you put Caine through those experiments!” she said, recovering some of her anger. “Why do that if you weren’t working with the Al’Vidar?”

“Because we were trying to find another way to release those souls from Caine.” She turned her attention to him. “From you, I should say. Unlike the Illumines, we aren’t interested in bashing our head against the same wall, again and again, to fix our mistakes.”

Caine’s face twisted in disbelief. ...