Chapter 119

　　The place you were born.

　　The words didn't land gently. They detonated.

　　Ariana didn't move at first. Couldn't. Her father's finger trembled in the air, pointing not at a map, not at a coordinate on a screen—

　　But at her.

　　"No," she said automatically. "No. That's not possible."

　　Behind her, ...