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Sentinel pauses. “Raze—”
“No!”
“I’m the one who just said I might be able to track it?”
“And you’re also half of whatever the fuck happened in that clearing.”
Sentinel’s jaw tightens. Raze points between him and me. “Your power merged with his. Malgrave already came for Carnage because of it, and you told me yourself, Heaven’s been crawling up your ass ever since.”
Ruckus lifts his whiskey. “Celestially speaking.”
Sentinel slowly turns his head, frowning at him.
Ruckus takes a drink. “Sorry.”
Wreck snorts, and even my mouth twitches, but Raze keeps going. “Until we know what that merge did to both of you, neither one of you is leaving this compound.”
Sentinel leans back in his chair. “So, who goes to Savannah?”
Scar answers before Raze can. “Me.”
Raze looks at him. “I was there three hundred years ago. I knew the phoenix. I know where she spent those last years better than anyone sitting at this table.”
Coil nods. “I’ll go with him.”
“So will I,” Thorn adds.
Raze looks from Scar to Coil, then Thorn. “All right. You three take Savannah. Find where she died, see what’s left of the settlement, and bring back anything that might help.” His attention settles on Scar. “Make sure Raider from Savannah Kings knows you’re flying into town. His territory, his club. We give him the courtesy.”
“Got it,” Scar replies.
Sentinel taps two fingers against the table. “You grab ash, soil, stone… anything that could’ve absorbed some trace of her over time.”
Scar looks at him. “You planning on giving me a fucking shopping list?”
“Would you like pictures?”
“Would you like my fist in your mouth?”
Sentinel smiles. “See? This is why written instructions are important.”
Scar bares his fangs at him, and I tap Sentinel’s arm, pointing between the two of us.
He looks at me. “What?”
I gesture around the clubhouse.
His eyebrows lift. “You’re asking what we do while they’re gone?”
I nod.
“See?” Wreck says. “Charades.”
My middle finger goes up again.
Wreck chuckles. “Still fluent.”
Raze rubs a hand over his jaw. “You two stay here and work out what the hell is happening between your powers.”
