She asked. “Will it put the world right again? Will it miraculously bring you back to your children? No, it won’t do any of those things, but what it will do is lead you down the same road he’s on.” Our engaged conversation masked the other sounds around us, making us blind and deaf when we should have been fully aware of our surroundings, because if we would have, then we would not only have seen the Guards exit the houses on the opposite side of the street, but we would have heard them enter the first floor of the house we were in. Trying to prove the other wrong did nothing but distract us further. “I got a body here,” a voice from below said, sending me and Rachel to look at the floor, as if we could somehow see through to the threat that had entered without our knowledge. I quickly placed a finger to my lips in order to keep her quiet and pulled her away from the doorway. “We have to get out of here,”
