"You're asking me to give up my life and my family for some possibly foolish notion of adventure of danger." His brow remained up, refusing to acknowledge either of the comments about himself or his sister while inside, completely on edge that this man who seemed a stranger-yet-not knew about their greatest secrets. "If you know me, you know I can't just leave my sister alone." He had promised Raven that she would never be alone again there in the kitchen where he had caught her trying to steal food to live.

But somewhere in him, the mere notion of being able to do something like this, to experience the world beyond, universes beyond... was that not the sort of thing he spoke about in his lectures? The beyond? What was to come?