...Um.
What.
My brain short-circuits.
His gaze flicks down at my chest. A beat later, he yanks the leather jacket from my limp hands and throws it around my shoulders.
“Are you deaf now too?” he snaps.
I flinch, then fumble to slide my arms into the sleeves.
“Um…” I mumble. “No.”
He exhales hard through his nose. Locks eyes with me.
“Alright,” he says, steady now. “I’m going to say this slowly, and I need you to actually listen, Skye.” He gestures to the jacket. “The thing you keep refusing to wear? It flickered with you. During your… malfunction.”
I squint. “The jacketflickeredwith me?”
“Yes,” he bites out. Like that one word explains the entire universe.
I just stare. My brain offers exactly zero helpful insights.
He doesn’t move. Just watches me.
And then, click.
Oh.
I didn’t just disappear. I pulled something with me.
The jacket came through to the void.
Which means, when I shift, I’m not just slipping between realms.
I’m dragging pieces of this one into the other.
Oh. That’s new.
“So… I could technically flicker the corpse into another dimension?”
“Not just the corpse,” Cassian says. “You’re going to make all of us invisible, and we’re getting the fuck out of here.”
“We might still be incognito if we’re lucky,” Nathaniel mutters, crouching beside us. Talon drops in behind him. “We just need to pop the trunk, grab the body, and disappear.”
The sirens are too close now, close enough that the lights are a physical burn against my skin. We’ve got maybe thirty seconds before the world explodes into uniforms, medics, and nosy-ass civilians.
And I… I have the fix.
Problem is, I only just found out about it.
“You think I can just, what, drag three grown men and a corpse into some alternate dimension?” I hiss. “I just got this bodyback, Cassian! I barely remember how to breathe, and now you want me to play interdimensional Uber?”
Cassian shoots me a glare. “Would you rather get arrested carrying a dead body?”
Ugh. I don’t like this. Not one bit. But what choice do I have?
“Fine,” I snap, throwing up my hands. “I’ll try. But if this goes sideways? I’m blaming all of you.”
