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The rockslide is over, and the cliffside on this cutout of the beach looks more like a steep, slanted slide of rocks now.
I keep my gift active and at the ready. Dane shifts to my side. “What else did Vera say?”
“That you’re the only one who can stop Royce.”
“How?”
“That thing she injected you with.” I squeeze his hand and look at him. “She also read your notebook. I think…she’s realized her mistakes with you. But—”
“Raegan. Dane,” Aiden calls to us. “Let’s go.”
“Through the portal or teleporting?” Kell questions.
“All of us through the same portal to conserve Reid’s strength.” Aiden motions us to the one he’s in front of, then takes my other hand. “Now.”
Chapter thirty-seven
Dane
I’mnotgonnalie.I’m distracted when we walk through the portal. Hearing that my sisterdidread my notebook, that she’s coming around…hope burrows involuntarily into my chest. What if she broke through the brainwashing? Is there a way to save her still? She gave me something to protect me from Royce, but what about herself? Did she figure out a way to separate herself so his death doesn’t affect her, if it even would? What if she plans to join us after we deal with Royce?
A rush of exhilaration floods through me as my thoughts spiral. If she’s switching sides now, why did she leave? Why did she tell Raegan and not me? Does she still have to play her part for Royce until we stop him?
Shouts and screams break my train of thought in time for me to realize a table is flying straight for us as we’re exiting the portal. Raegan rips her hand from mine, jumping forward with her hand outstretched. It disintegrates at her touch, and its ashes float toward us instead.
Fuck me, this woman.
She crouches to the hardwood floor, aiming her gift beneath the swarm of zombies. Our members are fighting back, hacking away at them with their gifts or weapons, but the dead don’t stop. Raegan curses when something flies across her view.
“What’s wrong?” Pulling the gun from my holster, I flank her to guard her back and side. Aiden, Jackson, Reid, and Tinsley have joined the members in their fight, taking on the GE agents in the room while Raegan, Kellan, and I handle the puppets.
“There’s too much movement. I’m trying to tag just the zombies, but I can’t tell who’s who with my gift. I have to see them.”
“Cast a smaller net,” Kellan suggests, and she nods, reeling her gift back to the area nearest us where she can clearly identify the ones to attack.
The zombies collapse to the ground while the Guild members look around with surprise.
“Go!” I bark, snapping them out of their stupor to get back to the fight.
Once Rae’s incapacitated the current group enough that they won’t be able to hurt anyone else, we move further in for her to repeat her steps with the next batch. As she’s working, fog creeps over the floor from the other side of the hall.
“Kell…” I warn.
“I see it,” he growls, searching over the chaos for its source.
“One of us has to take them out so she can see.”
“We’re not leaving her. We’ll have to count on Aiden or Jackson handling it.”
Fuck. What if they can’t get away to do it?
The fog builds faster than any natural occurrence, thickening and expanding to our knees in seconds.
Rae finishes the batch of zombies and stares worriedly at the fog that’s now reached our hips. “We’ll go find the fog user together, then. I can’t use my gift anymore without risking Guild members.”
Kellan nods, and we head in that direction.
Only problem is, there’s a mass of zombies and fights happening between us and the other side.
