I've five days to find out what's going on with Granger's list plans, and nothing seems to be bringing me closer to it. My feet feel like they're mired in a bog, and every step I take makes me sink farther instead of helping me get where I need to be.When I step out of the shower, I hear low voices from my bedroom."I've got to go see her," Taog's saying. I'm wearing only a towel, and I step through the doorway. "I'm right here.""He does not mean you," Magda says, and from her sleepy frown and the way she's blocking the door, whoever Taog wants to go see isn't in this flat at all. He's standing, but barely. After a war of stares with Magda, he sits back on the edge of my bed."What's wrong?" I ask him, pulling the towel tighter around my stomach."Tasha. She's in hospital with a forty degree fever."I have to grip the towel to keep from ending up naked in front of both of them. I knew Tasha was ill, but not that ill. "Is that her only symptom?" Taog shakes his head, "She wasn't very coherent, but she said she coughed up blood too.""This isn't a coincidence," I say. The others look as if I've just told them we're all in Edinburgh as we speak. "Is she at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary?" I ask."Aye, I'm her emergency contact, and they let her speak to me because she insisted.""They?" "She had to ring an ambulance herself.
