Containment by Caryn Lix

Author:Caryn Lix
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

TWENTY-THREE

ALEXEI WAS ALREADY ON HIS feet. “Find Mia,” he snapped.

Mia popped into view a few feet away. “Right here. What’s going on?”

“Rune just contacted me. She didn’t say much before the signal cut out.”

Mia swore creatively and at some length. “I knew it! What did I tell you?”

“Yes, that’s very helpful.” Alexei stormed into the crowd, catching our elbows to pull us along with him, apparently not at all concerned about the bounty hunters as he dragged us into the marketplace. I stumbled after him, my gaze fixed on the crowd, watching for a flash of silver.

Mia glared at him and shook loose. “Did Rune give you any idea where she was?”

“The comms cut out too quickly. Probably good, because wherever she is, the whole station heard her.”

I tugged free of Alexei and found myself running to keep up. “I guess we start in the docking ring, assuming you know where that is.”

“I do.”

“How many bounty hunters are there?” I asked as the three of us pushed our way through the crowds. I caught a glimpse of the men I’d elbowed earlier, thankfully on the other side of the market, and pulled my hood more closely around my face. Still no sign of the Silver Oni, or of his two partners.

“Five I’ve seen,” said Mia.

“Teams of four or five are standard,” I confirmed.

“But I didn’t see any of them in the market while I searched for Cage, who I didn’t find, obviously. I think they’ve withdrawn.”

Great. We were probably going to walk into a situation where as many as five trained bounty hunters, armed bounty hunters, held Rune captive. I didn’t think it was pushing things to guess they had Imani, Reed, and Jasper as well. And we had what to fight them? Fire, which would hurt our friends as badly as anyone else. I could speak to them in different languages, which was awesomely useless. Mia, though . . . could she slip in, vanquish them, and sneak out again? “No one knows you can share your invisibility. It’s not listed in your file,” I thought out loud as we emerged from the marketplace, unmolested. “That might work to our advantage.”

“Maybe.” Mia set her face in determination. We took the stairs at a run, Alexei’s bulk clearing a path through the crowds. We drew a lot of unnecessary attention, but did it really matter at this point? I wished we could get a message to Cage. I wished Mia had found him in the marketplace. His speed would definitely come in handy in this situation, and I knew how he’d react once he realized Rune was in danger and he wasn’t here to protect her. I’d simply have to stand in as best I could.

Mia vanished at will. Cage moved at the speed of light. Alexei made fire. Jasper dismantled buildings. Back home, I’d always been top of my class, working myself into exhaustion to master every skill. Here, no matter what I did or how hard I tried, I was never anything but a burden.

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