by J. J. Green
Jas exhaled in relief. “And you’re sure she’s a Shadow?”
“Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m sure.”
Jas groaned.
“She wasn’t with Bernie when I was captured and taken away,” said Sayen. “But she acted like a Shadow when she interviewed me, and it sure seems like there are a lot of them in that place.”
The woman jerked and writhed on the floor, and tried to shout.
“Let’s leave her to calm down a little,” Jas said.
There didn’t seem much point in replacing the woman in her chair, so they left her where she was after telling her they would be back in a little while. As they were climbing the stairs, Jas’ hand froze on the rail as a realization popped into her mind.
“That noise,” she said. “I know what it was.”
“What noise?” asked Sayen.
“Erielle radioed us from the headquarters’ car park, but there was a noise, and she was cut off.”
“What?”
“What was it, Jas?” asked Carl.
“It sounded just like the burst of a fire extinguisher, which is strange...oh, krat.”
“What, Jas?” Sayen asked urgently. “What is it?”
She hesitated a moment. She didn’t want to put the thought in Sayen’s mind, but now she couldn’t refuse to explain. “Erielle was covered in invisibility spray, but she had to speak to tell us when your Shadow was leaving. If someone had overheard her, and wanted to find her...”
“They could spray the area with a fire extinguisher, and the foam would show where she was,” finished Sayen.
“I might be totally wrong,” Jas said. “I’m sorry.”
They continued to climb the stairs. Sayen’s head was bowed as she slowly took each step. When they reached the top, she turned a stricken face toward them. “Do you know when she’s supposed to be back?”
“She’ll be here by morning at the latest, I think,” Carl replied. “She said she’d come back by herself.”
It was going to be a long wait. Jas hoped with all her heart that the underworlder had made it out and was now on her way through the streets, invisible, returning to the home she’d created for herself and her people. If she didn’t show, they would have to find a way to rescue her.
Erielle had helped them. Without her, they would never have been able to capture the—probable—Shadow in the basement. She’d shown that underworlders and the rest of human society could and should work together to defeat their common enemy.
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