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“Not quite. Franklin’s leaving town.”
“In this weather? How?”
“That Hummer he rented. This follows his pattern—he sets the storms in motion and leaves before he gets caught up in it.”
“So . . . we’re stopping his spell, right? What else do we need to do?”
“I want to get him,” Cormac said.
Yeah. So did I. “What do you need?”
“Meet me outside the Brown Palace.” And he hung up. No plan of attack, no clue about what we were actually going to do when we confronted Franklin. We’d get to that point soon enough.
“We’re heading downtown,” I told Ben and Tyler.
“The interstate’s closed,” Ben said. “We’ll have to take surface streets.”
“That just keeps the adventure going,” I said with false cheer. My nerves were vibrating—what if we went through all this and it didn’t work?
My phone rang again. Shaun this time. “Hey,” I said. “How’s it going?”
“I was going to ask you that,” he said. “Is this actually working? It’s stopped snowing here.”
“It has?” I looked outside, peering at the odd streetlight to catch a hint of movement. I couldn’t see snow falling. Maybe it really had stopped.
The line clicked. “I have another call coming in,” Shaun said. “Lance, it looks like. I’ll talk to you later.”
“Awesome.” I closed the phone and looked at Ben. “I think this is working.”
“It ain’t over yet,” he said.
We drove on, Tyler leaning forward to navigate the snowdrifted street, with stalled and abandoned cars left as obstacles every block or so.
“How are you doing?” I asked him.
“Good,” he said. “As long as I have something else to think about, I’m good.”
I patted his shoulder, and he flashed a smile.
The phone rang again—another Speedy Mart marked, I assumed. Excited, I answered and waited for Cormac’s voice.
“Change of plans—he’s heading east on Colfax. We’ve got to stop him.”
Not exactly what I was expecting. “Stop him how?”
“I don’t know. But we can’t let him leave town.”
“You’re following him, I take it?”
“Yeah. You think you can cut him off?”
Well. We could certainly try. “Sure. Why not? See you in a minute.”
This was going to get ugly. I slipped the phone into my pocket.
“I heard that,” Ben said.
“Where are we?”
