"The Nest is mine to use as I see fit."
The sentence was buried between lines of explanations and records. It wasn't until Mai Mingle was in the car heading home that it surfaced from the roiling currents of her thoughts.
That was what An Lu had told Lan Jiesen the last time he appeared.
By that point, it had been several months since An Lu had won the Dominion Game.
Mai Mingle sat dazedly in the Mercedes, watching the highway outside stretch endlessly into the distance. Vaguely, she began to understand the source of Chaisi's confidence.
The Illusions that Hunters risked their lives for again and again were, in fact, just a trivial part of the Nest.
The Nest also contained the power to create scripts, traps, and rules. It held creatures that defied classification as either residents or humans, and it possessed the means to alter reality, space, and even time...
