Chapter 31

Seph patiently waited for me to continue, her mouth pressed together in a solemn line.

"He was clearly dead," I continued. "Ramsey stood over him with a bloody knife, and... I remember everything so vividly, every grisly detail, but especially the sharp cut of Ramsey's smile. It was him. No question."

Seph sighed up at the bare branches stabbing at the overcast sky. "Then what happened?"

"Ramsey rushed outside into the meadow behind our house. I ran toward Leo to see if there was any way I could heal him...even though I knew it was too late. My parents woke to my screaming, the Ministry of Law Enforcement was called to investigate, and...there was no sign that Ramsey was even there. Had ever been there. I didn't know his name at the time, but I described him - his height, his build, the natural arch of his right eyebrow. But it was just my word to the Ministry who kept telling me to calm down, to not get hysterical even though he was my brother."

My hero. My whole world.