Chapter 36: Gone Dark
Sassafras bounded onto the table before I could think of a response.
"Gone?" He pawed at Pagomaris while the others crowded close at the balcony door to listen. "What do you mean, gone?"
She shivered, releasing my hand with a guilty jerk. "Dark," she whispered. "As if it's no longer there."
I shuddered in turn, brain firing to catch up with this new development. "Tell me how you know," I said.
She wiped at tears on her cheeks, her flawless makeup making tracks down her skin. "My sister," she gasped. "I tried to
reach her, just now. But I can't find her anywhere."
"That doesn't mean an entire city is gone, Pagomaris," Syd said.
My aide shook her head, violently enough her headpiece sagged free, the conical metal swaying back away from her face. "I
searched the entire plane," she said. "When I couldn't make a connection, I tried government offices, the homes of other