Kapitel 169: Chapter 169: In the Beginning ...

ZANDER'S EXCITEMENT THRUMMED ALONG his skin as he listened next to me. I looked around the room to see all eyes riveted on the woman in front of us. After all this talk about psychological manipulation, I had a fleeting thought that Dr. Frankler might be using her ability to hypnotize us. But my ability told me that she wasn't. We were simply enthralled with the idea of finally learning the truth about usemi, akharu, and idimmu ... and sethians. I had a feeling that her next words were going to alter everyone's past, present, and future, because that's what the truth did. It changed everything.

"I grew up in a place called Nimbiru," she began. "And the inhabitants of this place were referred to as ulami."

Zander tensed beside me.