CHAPTERTHIRTY-EIGHT
“Everyone accounted for?” Mr. Cooper asked. He was bent at the waist and standing sideways inside a small, dark tunnel. “Did Finn and his mate finally get here?”
I groaned. “We’re here. And my name is Mina Kramer. You can call me Mina, though.”
“I’m Wolfe. I prefer that over Mr. Cooper,” he stated, then turned to the tunnelway. “Everyone, follow me.”
Finn and I were last since I was the slowest out of everyone. At least, Finn brought up the rear. There would be no golems sneaking up on me.
I asked, “Anyone know why all the golems were duds?”
“If I had to guess,” Cassander hummed, “it was because something, orsomeone, didn’t trigger them.”
I swallowed on a dry throat. “All right.”
Poppy had been the activation key.
The group tumbled into silence.
But we eventually saw a light ahead.
“Hell, yeah,” I mumbled. “I wonder where it leads.”
“Nowhere good,” Finn responded.
“Why do you say that?”
“Because God never came back for us.”
“He may have come after we left. We weren’t on the roof that long. Heck, he may even still be traveling back to the side.”
Finn muttered, “I guess that’s a possibility.”
“Itisa possibility.” I grinned back at him.
* * *
Raising a blonde brow at my white tiger, I said, “Anything you would care to say?”
“Hush,” he mumbled, sitting next to me on the train.
I turned my attention back to the window, to the train station we had landed in. The shop owner had been smart enough to have a great escape route if he had ever been charged in his building.
“We’re going back to the site, right?” I probed.
“Yes. We need to make sure that’s where God is and that he’s not in trouble somewhere.”
I nodded and closed my eyes. “I lost my mother’s hat somewhere out there.”
“I was wondering what you were doing. You seemed pretty aggravated as you pocketed all of the owner’s goods.”
“They were stolen from my mother. I was going to give them back to her.”
He rested the side of his head on top of mine. “Don’t fall asleep. We’ll be there in a few minutes.”
“And yet it took so long to get there.”
“Well, one was by foot, the other by train.”
