"Are you sure this will work?" Jacob asked, a wry smile fighting the worry on his face as he listened to Karin's proposal.
"It will work. Drex's ability allows him to mimic someone else completely," Karin explained, her expression passive and unwavering.
'These people have no plans of leaving here without the boy. I might as well just give up on trying to convince them, and the idiot isn't helping matters either,' Jacob thought, frustrated, as he glanced toward Kieran. The young boy was picking his nose without a care in the world, the source of Jacob's deepest faction headaches.
Jacob wished he could rewind time just to leave Kieran back at the academy. Remembering the exorbitant fee they had spent to recruit the troublemaker made the regret even sharper.
