the book must remain hidden and away from xavier . `` more than zero is too many . '' his red hair and blue eyes had long washed out of their youthful punch , and his freckles made a rough pattern over his skin . time to drop the big bomb . the dirt ground into his skin made his fingers feel strange , as though he could maybe reach straight through the earth and touch what he needed . it was an interesting thing to look at him . that much was apparent on her face . 