Whisper wasn’t there.

  Somehow the bandit had managed to regain consciousness before me and get out of the RV before I could open my eyes.

  I noticed that Sydney hadn’t woken up yet. Mive must have kept her unconscious until he pushed all three of us out.

  “Are you okay?” Gesai touched my arm, then my shoulder then my cheek. She let her hand linger on my cheek. I could see the hunger in my eyes, but my stomach was still rolling, so I did not think a kiss at that moment would be smart.

  “I feel like breakfast might come back up.” I realized the last thing I had eaten had been the ice cream last night that Zel had offered to buy us.I suddenly realized that I was very hungry. I hadn’t felt like eating before we left and now it was past noon and I was starting to regret that decision. Because I doubted I could hold anything down. “But I’ll be okay.”

  “What happened in there?” Oz crouched down next to us and began looking me over.

  “Do I really look that bad?” I looked at my arms. I didn’t think I looked sickly.

  “Whisper bolted out of here like he was on fire.” Gesai gestured at the door. “We thought he might have done something to you.”

  “No, he just…” I looked over at Trent. “I think he’s jealous that he got passed over and I got picked.”

  “He got passed over?” Oz stood up and looked out the open door. “For what?”

  I started to answer, but stopped myself. We hadn’t told anyone that Whisper and Ether were both Godkin of some type. Or a latent Hero. I looked down at my CB, but Ether’s class still read Tank, which meant that she wasn’t Nephilim. That meant that she was probably the child of a God and a Mundane, though both of her parents were supposedly Mundane. That was a problem for another day, and we could discuss that as soon as we got somewhere safe.

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  “I honestly don’t know.” I nodded at Sydney. “We need to let her go. She didn’t set us up.”

  Gesai didn’t look like she wanted to leave my side, but Whisper was the only other one of us who could untie her.

  “I’ll be fine, you really should have her free before she wakes up.” I smiled to let her know I’d be okay.

  The green woman started stirring, letting us know to hurry.

  Gesai shifted over to Sydney and began untying her. She finished before the other woman woke all the way up.

  “How’re you feeling?” I eyed the woman who looked like she had a bad hangover.

  Sydney’s eyes went wide as she looked at Mive. “What did you do?”

  “Fare and the Six made a deal with demons for power to do that to Mive so they could take over the city.” I steadied myself as I took as big of a breath as I thought I could without making myself sick. “As you just saw, we were able to communicate a little with Mive and he asked us to take him with us to protect him from…” I looked at Gesai. “I need to talk to Whisper.”

  Both women helped me stand up.

  “Wait!” Sydney blinked as she tried to stand and sat back down. “We need to get you out of here before the Six lock down the city even more.”

  “The Six won’t be a problem.” I patted Gesai on the shoulder. “She made sure of that.”

  “You KILLED them!?!” Sydney really looked sick now. Or maybe it was because she was naturally green.

  “The demon killed the person that was in the body and was wearing it like a living costume.” I shook my head. “If anything Gesai honored them by stopping the people who were marring their good names.” They had made deals with literal demons to overthrow a God, so I wasn’t sure how good they had been to start with, but still.

  “We need to get out of here. I’m sure we have half the city looking for us as soon as what we did becomes common knowledge.” As if on cue my CB started buzzing. I looked down and saw that it was ArchBishop Mavery.

  “Great…” I looked at the two women in front of me. “I’ve got to take this.” I nodded at Sydney, “Could you help her out?”

  I winced as they helped the weakened woman out of the RV. The notification had ended, which meant that I was going to have to call him back. Gesai walked back into the RV and locked the door.

  “Tres or Mavery?” She walked over to the driver's seat and pulled up the call list.

  “Mavery.” I moved to the passenger’s seat and put my hand on hers. “Thanks for coming back.”

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