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“Still doesn’t shatter the illusion.” He mocks a dreamy sigh, and I laugh despite the impending madness I’m close to stepping into.
“You ready?” he asks more seriously as I finish clipping on the last knife.
“As I’ll ever be.”
“Then I’ll get your theme song ready.”
“You’re really going to play music?” I muse as I walk to the door.
“Every epic climax needs a good theme song,” he quips, forcing a smile.
He crosses the room in a few quick, long strides, and his arms go around me, tugging me to him as he kisses the top of my head. I return the embrace, steeling my nerves and my breaths.
“I love you, little sister,” he says softly.
“I love you, big brother,” I say back, clutching him tighter.
He pulls back, cupping my chin in his hand as our eyes meet.
“Now go kill them all while I burn the town to the ground.”
I nod. “Phase ten.”
Chapter 14
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
—Albert Einstein
LOGAN
“Why isn’t anything happening?” I ask Hadley, watching the monitors that have been flipping at random for the past hour on the completely evacuated town.
A screen pops up; the heat signature screen from earlier that Jake shut down. It has the entire town on the screen, but the only heat signatures are all coming from one building.
“Town hall,” Hadley says to herself, echoing my own thoughts. “They cleared out the entire town with the exception of the deputies.”
“What are these?” I ask, pointing to the few near the side of the town, and the one right on the border but still inside the town.
“That’s probably Jake or Lana, just like this one,” Hadley says, motioning to one that is moving through the streets like it’s walking.
My stomach clenches as my eyes train on the moving ones.
“These here are probably some officers who were sent to the edge of the town border for some reason,” Hadley goes on, gesturing to the three dots off to the side.
A message box pops up before I can ask any more questions.
You ready for this? Or do you want to look away? It’s going to get messy.
Hadley sucks in a breath, staring at the
message box.
“Is that Jake?” I ask, leaning forward.
“Yes,” she says as she types back.
Why are there officers outside of town?
