Chapter 57

Noah got up, rounded his table to sit on the corner near Gregory Flynn.

"So he isn't the one behind driving clans to inhospitable forests?" When he was this close to figuring it out, things slipped away.

But he could see Gregory was positively green in the face now.

"I didn't think it was repetitive enough to become a sequence. Rudiger believes someone blamed his clan members for something they didn't do and he hasn't figured out who?"

"Yes. I told him I could find out. And I will." Caustic certainty coated Noah's words. He continued,

"But until I do. I need him to cast his doubt on Desmond."

"Yes. That can be done. About the deals. Communion is investing a lot in studying DNA and mapping it to genes, inheritance. That sort of thing." Gregory paused to let them soak it in but it was a no shocker to either boy. Well then.

"They have announced it as a way to treat illnesses. Mental or otherwise."

Rehabilitation and treatment was a well endowed farce. All the mercenaries were promis