“I’m awake,” Lakesh murmured, yawning and looking at the empty space where Domi should have been sleeping. He ran his fingers through his thick, gray hair, matting it back down even as the swift, tight-beam transmission was translated and transmitted via the computers. “Contact made. Invited in. Everything mind controlled down to squirrels and sparrows.” It was Kane, subvocalizing and sending off the message with all the speed he could. Charun and Vanth were so sure of themselves that they didn’t even seem to care about the message transmitted by the two…prisoners? Guests? Visitors? Lakesh was full of worry. While Kane and Grant were walking tall through the front doors of Charun and Vanth’s kingdom, his love, Domi, was moving in stealthily, along with the rest of her team and one other. If there was someone who could travel undetected, it was the albino girl, a stalker of both wilderness and urban apocalypse. The same went for Edwards, a Magistrate who’d patrolled through the Tartarus Pits as a lawman in a dangerous fringe town.
