“No.” Because he’s dead. But I managed to not say that. “Without explaining things, I cannot . . . your father once, a long time ago, used this tome to . . . eradicate the Seelie Realm of some unwanted residents.”

He smirked. “The Unseelie. Yes. I am well-aware of their history and where they came from. And yes, I am aware of the tome he used to do so though I have never seen it myself.”

“I have.”

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “I do not like this.”

“None of us do.” Then something occurred to me. “The war, the one I . . . died in . . . was that⁠—”

“Vampire and Unseelie war against The Coven?” He arched one eyebrow. “Yes. Sweyn was defeated. The entire Nephilim species was killed. The Unseelies were kicked out⁠—”

“Right. Kicked out⁠—”

He groaned and hung his head. Then he pushed to his feet and scrubbed his face with his hands. “The tome is not on Earth. My father has it⁠—”

“I don’t need the tome.” When baby Rae made a little whimper in his sleep, I looked down and smiled then began to gently rock him. “Without details . . . there is a page missing. I’m looking for that page.”

Akecheta pinched the bridge of his nose.

“I know where it’s supposed to be. But we discovered that it has been destroyed—-by Sweyn. We’re not sure when she destroys it, sometime between the last war and our present day. Valathame⁠—”

“You know her name?” Everest whispered. “You speak of it casually? The Coven here does not know it⁠—”

“The Coven knows it in my time.” Because we’d met her. We knew her. I’d spoken to her myself. “Anyways, Valathame sent me on a quest to find it in my time, with the sole purpose of showing me where to find it. And that’s why I’ve traveled back in time. That’s why I’m here. I have to find the missing page. If you reach into my magic bag here, I’ve made a decoy to replace it with.”

“You have a decoy? How do you know what it looks like?”

I grimaced. “You made it.”

His face fell. He stared at the ceiling. He cursed then crouched down and reached into my bag. He flinched then his eyes widened, and I knew he’d just been surprised by the magic of the bag. He lifted the decoy out and stared at it. Then he shuddered and shoved it back into my bag. “I have never seen this.”

“There will be a place where Sweyn and all the vampires are forced to live, per The Coven’s law. That is where the page will be.” I looked down at baby Rae and my heart sank because I knew it was time to go. “I just have to find the right time period.”

He sighed. “This is not that time.”

“I know.”