She had stopped laughing and her eyes were troubled, shedding tears that were staining her cheeks. Orchid held out her hand towards him and Falcon leaned forward to take it, only to grasp thin air.
The upper floor was a hallway with two bedrooms and a bathroom at the end, which Aurelia had shown him to clean up. He was doing quite a bad job at it, as he stared at his gaunt face in the mirror, the hollow eyes looking back at him in demand as to why he was punishing himself. It had been three days since he had last eaten anything, and even the adrenaline was tired.