"It doesn't feel right asking you to do that for me, Penelope," Zagan said, his eyes flitting around the group.
"But that is the answer," she replied, her expression positively elated at how obvious it was. She couldn't believe it hadn't occurred to her before this moment.
"She's right," August added. "That makes sense. If no one remembers you in Gray Vale, then they can't recall that you are a threat."
Nedra was watching them quietly, tucked into Seth's side. She had mixed emotions about the suggestion that Zagan could be forgotten so easily with Penelope's help. It seemed wrong—that Zagan would be able to do all of the things that he did, create so much suffering and pain and change the course of so many lives and then just be able to disappear from their memories.
