Chapter: 1781

"Yeah!" Rowan nodded.

Jonathan squinted, piecing together something in the back of his mind.

"You've been in touch all this time?"

"Not always. There was a while when he got really busy and we didn't talk. I didn't even know where he was. But he reached out recently—something about a new system he's working on."

The excitement in Rowan's voice was unmistakable, but Jonathan's thoughts had drifted elsewhere.