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"Call" It was Tae of the hayloft Call could see Jasper behind her "Your dad is a wanted criht," Aaron said, sounding sorry "Anything could be relevant"

"Fine" Call wished he’d been cleverer, wished he’d guessed his father’s hiding spot instead of Aaron, wished he didn’t have to share these letters with the others "But I’ them Not anyone else"

He kept the letters jammed under his arm as he cliured out how the hurricane laht Call sat down on one of the beds, and the rest of the Master Joseph’s handwriting like this It was spiky and thin and he signed every letter with his full name, complete with middle initial There were nearly a dozen of them, dated over the last threelines

There’s a e can both have ant

You want your son brought back from the dead and ant Constantine Madden

You don’t understand the full power of the Alkahest

We never saw eye to eye before, Alastair, but now you’ve lost so ine if everything you lost could be returned to you

Steal the Alkahest, bring it to us, and all of your suffering will be over

None of itto use the Alkahest to kill him, hadn’t he? He’d wanted to destroy the Enemy of Death

Call remembered the astonishment on his father’s face as he’d struck the wall, re fury What if he’d been wrong about Alastair? What if Alastair hadn’t been lying when he said he wasn’t going to kill Call?

But if Alastair wanted to get rid of hiet the soul of his real son back, that was just as bad Maybe he didn’t want to kill Call outright, but sticking his soul back in Constantine Madden see so far off the bed that she was nearly falling "Call, what does it say?"

"Nothing," Call said gri it in his pocket "It’s a bunch of tips on how to grow begonias"

"Liar," said Jasper succinctly, snatching one of the letters off the bed He started to read out loud, eyes groider "Wait, these are … these are really, really, really not about begonias!"

It was horrible Tamara and Aaron clearly hadn’t believed him, but the look of betrayal on both their faces was al Worse, they read everything Line after bizarre line -- though to Call’s relief, nothing in the letters referred directly to the fact that he possessed the soul of Constantine Madden Who knehat they would have thought if they’d gotten ahold of the letter in his pocket?

"So, he really has the Alkahest and he’s going to give it to the Eneht you said he’d been wrongfully accused"

"Look at this one," said Tareed, because Master Joseph is writing about how he’ll contact him and how they’ll meet It’s supposed to take place two days froisterium," said Aaron "We have to tell someone Call, I believed you about your dad, butinto the hands of the Enemy," said Taht, Call?"