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Karnavan when they were in that meadow...”
    Suddenly the scene around them changed again.
    Sucked into a new memory.
    “I think I’m getting better at this,” said Colby. “This is exactly where I wanted to go.”
    They were back in the meadow with the field of pyres. Karnavan and Juliska were speaking closely. She was upset over a special weapon that Karnavan had been given.
    “I don’t think she knew what she had that whole time,” said Colby. “That might have changed by now.”
    Meghan worried about everyone still on the island. What had happened after Jae had thrown himself to his death? They had fled the island thanks to Sebastien and her mother’s candle.
    Had everything just gone back to the way it was before Jae had jumped? Or was something much, much worse happening now?
    She also worried about being in this memory, as she did not want to relive her betrayal to Colin. Her eyes widened. Oh no. If this memory goes on for too long, Colby will find out he’s the...  she hoped she had hidden the thought from him, but nothing worked right in this bad memory trip. He at least didn’t act like he had picked up on her thoughts.
    H e started laughing. Shaking his head.
    “You think I don’t know. You really are a stupid girl, sister or not.”
    She bit her lip, hoping it wasn’t what she feared.
    “I already kno w your dear non-brother, Colin is the Projector. I tracked him. Killed his teacher, that’s how I got this scar.” He pointed to his chest.
    Meghan backed away, the look of horror on her face.
    “This is what makes you a bad person, Colby. You killed someone.”
    As horrified as she was by this she wanted to burst out and ask if her brother was okay. And Catrina, was she okay too? What had happened to them? And her brother had a teacher? How? And what was he being taught?
    “I do what I am ordered to do,” Colby said firmly.
    “You’re just a puppet. Nothing more.”
    “An invincible puppet that can do anything I want to. No one can stop me. Not even my father!” His voice frightened her.
    She turn ed and ran. She didn’t know why. It wasn’t like she could hide inside their memories.
    “Where are you going, Sister? You can ’t hide from me in here!”
    She stopped and shouted, “You will never be my brother! Never! I will never w ork alongside of you! Colin, true brother or not, will be more of a family to me than you will ever be!”
    “But I haven’t even told you the best part yet,” said Colby, as the memory changed yet again. They were on a wooden boat. This was not one of her memories, this had to one of Colby’s.
    Meghan gasped as she watched Colby shove a blade through the body of an elderly looking man. A man it took her a moment to recognize.
    “Jasper Thorndike.”
    “Otherwise known as the last living Projector, until your brother came along. We thought Jasper had died years ago. Hid very well. But he made the mistake of taking in a student who was stupid. Careless.” There was no compassion in Colby’s voice.
    “He was helping Colin ,” Meghan muttered.
    “If you can call it that. I took him out pretty easily so I don’t know what good he could have done, or how he stayed alive all these years.”
    Somehow, this Jasper had known what Colin was long before anyone else, and he had sacrificed his life trying to help him.
    They did not stay on the boat long. Meghan closed her eyes, for a moment thankful to know that Colin hadn’t just been on the run and in hiding and afraid. He had not been alone. When she opened her eyes, they were in a new place. A vast estate nestled at the top of a hillside.
    “And where are we now?” she asked wearily. “I know we are no longer in my memories.”
    “This is my home. A home you could share with me.”
    She shook her head.
    “You might just change your mind one day, Sis. If you haven’t realized it yet, you’re going to live a lot longer than the average person. Once all your friends are old and dead, me and Dad, we’re