"Just one of my old mentors trying to kill Seth," Tocsax replied to Mac. "I'm going to need you guys to argue against it."

"As if you can sway me," spoke Hakim the Wise, as the lights in the room grew brighter, and the earth shook a little, which was strange as they were in the middle of a pyramid, with insulating layers of limestone all around.

"You see," spoke Tocsax, "Seth, well...he's a Nobody. And Hakim has a grudge against Nobodies, although he's grown enough to realize that those whoe have regrown their Hearts have the right to exist. It's just that, well, Seth hasn't regrown his heart yet, and so Hakim considers him to have failed a test that dictates whether he should live or not."

"It's not just that," spoke Hakim the Wise, "but there is something that prevents the young man from regrowing his Heart. One of my hopes is that in trying to kill him, I might break that mental block..."

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