He began making those connections between his past, present, and future creations—and the answers he needed.

He began making those connections between his past, present, and future creations—and the answers he needed. Ever since Kai disappeared after that dreadful day in Elkins Park, Ray decided he’d walk through the rest of this life alone. It was something he never could have planned for, something not even his obsessive planning could have accounted for—her π, as he’d come to call it—equal parts irony and ache.