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“His father should be back
soon.”
    Addy perked up. “Gage’s father?”
    Fate finished the last of his wine. “Yes, it’s been
nearly twenty years. Will could return anytime.”
    Gage’s father, Will Elsegood, Scattered when his power
drained just before Gage came to live at Tremain with his mother Molly. Addy
knew Gage looked just like him with his golden hair, light blue eyes, and lean,
tall build from the pictures she’d seen in Molly’s room.
    Stubbs walked over and poured himself a glass of wine,
then refilled Fate’s glass. “Molly told me she plans to stay on at Tremain as
long as she’s needed.”
    Molly never developed any powers, just like Matt’s
sister Renee. Before she came to Tremain, she was a doctor at a human hospital and
over time started caring for Fate when he became sick.
    Bernard straightened up the messy stack of papers in
front of him. “It’s going to be tough once she’s gone to get the kind of
medical care she provided us with over the years.”
    Addy scooted up to the edge of her chair, dropping her
hands on the table. “You guys think after Will comes back Molly and Gage will
leave Tremain?”
    “Molly will for sure, but Gage will probably stay on,”
Bernard said, smiling. “He enjoys my rigid combat practices too much.”
    Molly took care of Addy for Fate when she was little,
so she and Gage were together a lot. The thought of them leaving was shocking.
    Bernard stood up and pushed his chair back in. “I’ll
see you for combat practice in the morning, Addy.” He headed out the door to
see Gage.
    Because of his military background, Bernard was very
big into self-defense and combat. He started teaching Addy how to fight as soon
as she could stand on her own. He'd trained her to defend herself, as well as
take someone down.
    Her grandfather agreed to let Bernard train her as
long as Addy also learned how to play the piano. Luckily Bernard’s wife Doris
was her piano teacher. That made it fairly easy to get out of boring piano
lessons to practice combat.
    Bernard was close with Gage and trained him to fight
just like he did Addy. Her and Gage practiced combat together when they were
young, but once they were older they each got individual lessons. 
     Addy got to her feet and took a few steps toward the
door. “If we’re done here, I’m gonna finish sorting the books and head out.”
    Stubbs waved her back to the table. “Come have a seat
for just another minute.”
    She tried not to show how irritated she was, but
guessed by the look on her grandfather’s face she’d failed miserably.
    “Addison, don’t act that way.” Fate raised his
voice. “I taught you better than that. Sit down and—”
    “Sorry,” Addy said, stopping him before he got any
more upset. “What else do you need from me?”
    She was staring at the painting on the wall above the
fireplace of a man and a woman; Andrew and Eva, the oldest Akori, standing in what
looked like a cemetery. They were both still around somewhere, but neither of
them had been at Tremain since before she was been born.
    “We just need to tell you a couple of things and then
you can go. I know it’s boring.” Stubbs always tried to smooth things over when
her Grandfather got upset with her. “You remember we never move the estate to
the same place twice, right?”
    “Yes,” she said, glancing between Fate and Stubbs.
    Fate cleared his throat. “We’ve been here before.”
    Never ever, had an Overseer broken the rules
and selected the same location twice. That was a big bomb to drop.
    Fate took a sip from his glass. “This is where you
were born.”
    “Oh.”
    Addy didn’t say it out loud, but she knew it also
meant that it was the place her parents were killed. It happened on the day she
was born. She wasn’t sure how to feel about being back there. Deep down she
knew she was supposed to miss her parents or be sad, but it was hard to
feel that way about people she didn’t know.
    “Akori can sense your