It's incredibly subtle, far more so than anything Obadiah has said or implied so far, and Cal would have missed it too, a few months ago. Before he knew about the . . . shift in the way his uncle looks at him now.

As it is, he tells himself he's imagining it, even as his expression flickers for just a second. Just seeing things. Just hearing things.

He smiles like nothing happened and says,

"She did teach me everything she knows."