I was on the roof.

  Fray was the only one who felt uncomfortable with me being able to see them bathe. And that seemed to make her feel even more embarrassed to the point that she’d asserted that she wouldn’t bathe. Since that wasn’t a good option, I’d excused myself to the roof in the name of keeping an extra watch over everything.

  It was dark outside and it was so strange to think that it’d barely been over a day since we’d entered the city. In that time, we’d fought demons, rescued a captured God and fled from people who’d been told that we were the villains. I wondered how the others were doing, but I wasn’t sure how the messaging system in the CBs worked. Which reminded me. The bounty hunters had gotten our vehicles tracking identification, which made me wonder if our CBs might have the same tracking capabilities. I’d have to ask Gesai once they finished bathing.

  It didn’t seem like I had to wait long before the silver woman climbed up the ladder to the roof.

  “Already finished?” I eyed her dry red hair. “How’d you do that?”

  “The girls are still getting cleaned up.” Her right fist caught on fire and a gentle breeze swirled around her. “Just like with filling a tub, you’ll learn that there are a lot of practical uses for your skills outside of just combat.” The warm breeze swirled over to me before it faded away.

  “That’s pretty neat.” I started thinking. “I’ll have to experiment sometime.”

  “It gets easier to play around with combinations once you hit Tier One.” Gesai leaned on the solid railing next to me.

  “Is that when you start really being able to mix skills?”

  She shook her head. “No, it’s when it’s easier to buy Tier Zero skills to experiment with. Also, you’ll have more mana to spend on the lower Tier skills.”

  That made sense. “Hey.” I tapped my CB. “Can these be tracked like our RV was?”

  “No.” Gesai hung her head. “If we’d taken Trent’s RV, then that wouldn’t have happened, but because the one they gave me was an extra one from the fleet…” She let me fill in the rest. “It was on our list of things to do, but I planned on fixing that once we got to Klix and we had a little downtime while you and Trent had your secret meeting with the Goddess.”

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  “How much do you know about that?” I motioned below us. “About this?”

  “You mean about Trent looking into Mive’s disappearance?” Gesai shook her head. “Not much. I knew there was something he wanted to look into, but with that old man, he’s always looking into something. And the more you ask, the more likely it is that you’ll have to run errands that will confuse you more.” She looked over at me. “I learned a long time ago that most of the time, asking him about it is rarely a good idea.”

  We stood there in silence and listened to the sounds of the city. I wasn’t sure where exactly we were, but it seemed like we were a lot closer to the commercial section than the industrial, or residential areas.

  “What’s the plan then?” It seemed like this area had at least closed down for the night.

  “Klix will be here tomorrow and Whisper is going to bring her here.” I could tell there was something weighing on her. “They should have at least two personal guards with each of them, which means Tier Five minimum.” Gesai shook her head. “I’d feel a lot better if it was Tres.”

  “Did you know about Tres and Trent being so close?”

  “No.” The silver woman shook her head. “Honestly, Trent was just a reclusive old man to me. I’ve learned more about his personal life in the last two weeks than I learned in the last seven years.”

  “Oh.” I wasn’t sure how that made me feel. Once the Goddesses got here tomorrow, we were going to be completely at their mercy. I just hoped that my seal held. “Do you think I should be somewhere else?”

  “Honestly, if they’re going to take out you, then I don’t see why they wouldn’t want to take out Trent or Mive, given their condition.” Gesai nodded at the city. “I’m sure there have been a few people who fled once the new Six came out that Trent had taken Mive, but for the most part it looks like business as usual out there.” She shook her head. “Plus they wouldn’t desolate Mive without ordering a city evacuation first, so we’re at least safe for a little while.”

  “Right…” I looked out at the city. “So now we just wait until the Goddesses show up and rescue us.” A thought occurred to me. “Gesai. Can you access my skill points and spend them for me?”

  Gesai opened the menu on her CB and cycled through to the party menu, then shook her head. “According to mine, you don’t have any skill points to spend.”

  “Oh…” Well, that meant that Trent was the only one who would be able to spend my skill points. I had nine I could use, which would have been able to bring my Magic up to twenty, so I would have at least been able to cast spells like I was Tier One. I knew it wouldn’t really make much of a difference against a TIer Five, but it would at least make me feel like I was a little stronger. “Then I guess we wait.”

  “No.” Gesai pointed to the ladder where Fray had just appeared. “You’re going to get cleaned up.”

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