Chapter 154

IT WAS not, he decided, a test, nor was it a request or a demand. It was an offer--an offer with limitless caveats, it seemed, but he'd had a choice. They'd made sure of that.

Hardly a choice at all, Wil had thought when it had been presented to him, or not one he'd had trouble making, at least. He knew what he wanted--the same thing he'd always wanted. A chance to live an actual life. No chains, no walls, no locked doors, and the only cage would be one he made and chose for himself, if he chose one at all.