Book Six: Chapter 221

“So Naia didn’t know? She hasn’t been lying to me?” Mike let out the breath he had been holding. It was the one thing that he had been worried about. She had been the first person he had ever truly trusted, and the knowledge that she had been lying to him this whole time had nearly made him sick to his stomach.

“No, she hasn’t, never knowingly. Nor could I casually reveal myself, not without potentially harming her.” Hestia sighed. “The rules of the game, as it were. But I must ask-how did you figure it out?”

“I can see souls now.” He could picture it again, that magnificent fractal pattern above the house as the geas took a stronger hold. It rotated in place like a distant galaxy, marked with golden streaks of divinity. The house itself was alive, and it was a pattern that he recognized as the runes on Naia’s ribs. “That, and I discovered something interesting in the Dreamscape.”

“Oh?” Hestia cocked her head.

“Naia doesn’t have her runes there. Which means t