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“You’re killing people, Calla.”
“For the greater good, right? Isn’t that what the Guides say?” Her eyes flashed in the darkness. The smoke in the air was hard to breathe through, but she smiled. “They need to take me seriously. Why should you get to live, when the rest of us don’t?”
“I don’t understand,” he said. His voice broke again. “Please.”
Her mouth opened, but before any sound could come out, her body jerked.
Twice.
At first he didn’t get it. But then she crumpled.
And then Hunter saw the man with the gun.
Oh. Oh, shit.
He ran like hell.
He made it about fifty feet before someone called his name.
Someone. Kate.
Her voice drew his attention, made him almost turn.
And then something hit him in the shoulder. He stumbled and saw stars. His forearms were suddenly in the dirt. For a horrifying moment he thought he was going to be sick on himself.
Run, he told himself. Run, you wuss.
He forced himself back to his feet. One foot in front of the other.
This didn’t feel like running.
He stumbled again. The ground came up and hit him in the face. His arm wouldn’t work.
Then he was sick and he hated that they were going to find him dead, lying in his own puke.
His dad would be so disappointed.
“Hunter.” Someone was shaking him. Rolling him. “Hunter.”
He opened his eyes. It felt like he’d been sleeping for hours, but fire still filled the air. He could feel it everywhere, burning against his senses.
Gabriel was there, backed by fire, looking down at him. “Can you hear me?”
“Guide,” said Hunter. His voice sounded funny, distant and somewhat tinny. “You have to run.”
“I saw,” said Gabriel. “Don’t worry, we’ll—”
Hunter didn’t worry. The flaming sky went black.
CHAPTER 16
Kate made it to Silver’s side just in time to see him pull the trigger again.
Too much was going on for her to examine the sudden wrench in her chest. “Stop!” she cried. “He’s not the one who started this!”
“I know.” Silver’s ice-blue eyes flicked her way.
“Then why are you shooting him?”
