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Kan’n stood. “I will go do a perimeter check.”
I frowned. “Cade literallyjusttold you to stay inside.”
He sent me an exasperated look, like he didn’t think a human should be giving him advice. “It is just around the building. I will not go hunt.”
“Fine. Don’t die.”
He scoffed and left the gym, which had me shaking my head. He was back to being his usual Loose Cannon self. He’d spent the whole morning glaring at me, as if somehow all this was my fault. It was like yesterday had never happened.
“Pip, do you think you can get a call out to the camp now that the weather has cleared up?”
“I can try, but no promises. I’ll need to do voice only to conserve battery.”
“Okay, go for it.”
“Calling home.” Pip dialed the main line, which was a cell phone that got passed around depending on who was free and staying home that day.
It was Aanya who picked up, which probably meant that Mo, Kat and Haax’l were all busy dealing with scourge. Relief flooded her voice when she heard mine. “Sam! You’re alive! Where have you been, bitch? You had us so worried.” She sounded far away but the signal was still clear.
“We’re somewhere in Canada, not sure how far north. A blizzard hit just after we landed, and we couldn’t get a call out.”
“We?”
“Kan’n’s with me.”
“Me too,” Pip said.
“Pip? Is that you?”
“Kind of.”
“Kind of?” Aanya ask.
“We don’t have a shuttle,” I explained. “It’s just Pip’s…brain. I have him hooked up to a laptop. We came down in an emergency pod.”
“Oh, no wonder the connection is so weak.”
“Hey! I’m doing the best I can with what I’ve got,” Pip said defensively.
“A local hunter group was supposed to pick us up after the blizzard,” I explained. “But they’ve run into some problems and haven’t come yet.”
“Lemme guess—scourge?”
“Yeah, so we’re kind of stuck here for the next little bit.”
“Well, where’s here? Maybe we can send someone.”
Pip sent her our coordinates, and Aanya made a disappointed sound. “Yeah, that’s pretty far north. We can send someone, but it might be better for you just to wait for the hunter group nearby, if they aren’t far.”
“I figured as much. Especially with the scourge acting the way they are now.”
“Yeah, the buttholes are everywhere. Is Kan’n with you?”
“No. He insisted on doing a perimeter check, even though he’s supposed to stay inside to avoid catching the scourge’s attention.”
“Ugh. My Haax’l’s like that too. It’s a hunter thing. So…. You and Kan’n snowed in during a storm, huh?”
“It’s not like that,” I lied. It had been totally like that, yesterday anyway, and I knew that if I continued to let Aanya question me, everything was going to come out. I was no good at keeping secrets, especially the spicy kind, and that went double now that he was acting like a jerkwad again.
