Book Five: Chapter 21

Lily, who sat across from him, shook her head. “I don’t see why you have to go,” she told him with no small amount of anger in her voice. “Literally anyone else can go. Amir is still out there, and it bothers me that we haven’t heard from him. If he’s put any sort of force together, he is watching for you to leave the house.”

“I know. But even if he is, he won’t be able to force his way through. Based on Eulalie’s explanation, only people who become seriously lost ever slipped through. Never anyone with a purpose. What do you think?” He addressed his question to a crystal ball on the desk. Inside the ball, he could see Ratu reclining on an ornamental chair.

“I agree with this assessment,” she declared. “The geas here lets people onto the land, but they can’t see the truth of things. I attempted to scry the location earlier, and it is practically unreadable. In fact, that map of the boundaries you have is insufficient. Much like the greenhouse, the land itself is bigger o