His name is bigger than he is. Ari is twelve, lives alone in a house called Obsidian on the Salish Sea, and hasn't celebrated anything since his parents died two years ago. His father left him a book written in a language taught to him as a child — presented as a game between them. It wasn't a game. When Ari read it aloud, everything in the darkness that had been searching for three thousand years turned and looked directly at him. He just missed his dad. And the universe ans