Chapter 44
Outside, I shrugged into the coat and wrapped it around my old one. The fire down the street raged, growling like a murderous beast as it licked up into the sky. I could hear it there, looming over the shouts below it. The smoke siphoned into my lungs and stuck there like stinging barbs.
Had Archer found Ronin yet? Why hadn't Grady come back like he was supposed to so I could hand off Sasha to him before heading into town myself to find Jade and Lee? That had been our plan. Maybe they were at the rendezvous point, out of their minds with worry that Sasha and I weren't there.
I started in that direction, leaving the fiery heat for the frigid temperature of Slipjoint Forest. Sasha wriggled, and I knew she had to be uncomfortable from being cooped up for so long.
"Just a little longer," I whispered, speeding my pace.
I hoped.