In the worst case scenario—elimination.
It didn’t matter whether their enemies failed or succeeded in their attack.The very fact that there was an attempt would be enough to severely damage the forty-three’s reputation.Any trust they’d built with the major Houses would be gone.
Kira wasn’t sure they’d ever get it back.
“Maybe you should listen to her, Alexander,” Jin urged softly.
“I don’t need to.As difficult as it is for you two to believe, we know what we’re doing.Don’t call again.I’m busy.”
“Alexander?Alexander!”Kira shouted, getting no response.“Jin, can you get him back?”
Static crackled from the squirrel’s throat.
“Jin?”
Shouting distracted her.
Kira glanced around in confusion to find Solal racing toward her across a stack of containers, gesturing wildly.
Out of the corner of her eye, something huge swiftly approached from above.
Kira’s stomach dropped at the sight of nearly a dozen containers in free fall directly above her.
“Oh, this is going to hurt,” she whispered.
Twenty Six
Kira
Kiraplantedahandon the railing and levered herself over it.
Heart in her throat, forehead creased in concentration, she fell.
A second later she hit the container below and rolled.Right over its edge.Then she was falling again.
The walkway she’d just been standing on gave way with a crash.
Kira found her feet, hauling ass like her life depended on it.
Mostly because it did.
She strained, reaching for every ounce of speed she had as the rest of the containers came down.
For a brief moment, she thought she felt a trickle ofkiinfuse the muscles of her legs.She didn’t have time to stop and analyze the feeling as the containers from above collided with those below, knocking them askew.
Kira hit the end of her row and made a sharp right.
The wall of stacked containers next to her rocked.Tilting.Tilting.Until it hit the point of no return and toppled over in slow motion.
“Ah, crap,” Kira cursed.
Why did the weirdest, most dire things always happen to her?
The fear of being crushed to death gave Kira wings as she flew down the row, containers toppling behind her in a deadly game of dominoes.
The floor shook ominously.
She wasn’t going to make it, Kira realized.The falling containers were too fast and she was too slow.
