Book Six: Chapter 144

“Man, I wish I could see your face right now.” Callisto laughed, then wiped a tear from his eyes. “It wasn’t elephants, Dad. I’m just fucking with you.”

Though the joke had been funny, Mike made a mental note to avoid elephants in the future. Just in case.

Callisto drew another line on the wall, and then the daylight was sucked from the room as the spell was completed. Instead of the office, they now sat in darkness, the space lit by an elaborate series of spinning runes that occupied each direction. Light flowed through symbols that Mike hadn’t seen before, but he recognized that most of them contained the shapes his son had drawn on his arrival.

“Anyway, before you go, I just wanted to say thank you. Thanks for never giving up on me, no matter how many times I...” Callisto shook his head. “I can’t say much. Causality is a bitch. But I’m sure you can guess that we’ll have our differences. All families do. When all is said and done, I look back at you with a