Trevor wants us out at VF,Canyon told him.
Timber pointed at the nearby Red Cross tent. “Breakfast first.”
Fifteen minutes later, they were on their way. They dropped the MCU at the vehicle yard and picked up Canyon’struck, and headed out of town to VF, until Canyon remembered something. He cranked a U-turn.
I want to check on thefoxen,he said.Make sure he’s doing alright.
Timber took Predator from the center console and pulled up a video stream of the cellblock. He held it up so Canyon could see it.
“He’s sleeping,” Timber said.
Later then.
Canyon cranked another U-turn, and they were back on their way out to Trevor’s. Canyon turned onto the highway and sped up.
“I thought for sure you were going to let him go when I got Mac out of there,” Timber said.
I tried. As soon as I unlocked the cuffs, he doubled over in pain and begged me to lock him back up.
“From the mark?”
Yeah.
“Shit.”
He didn’t tell me his name, but he talked a little. I said Reynard was a hero and that got his attention. He told me when Khain takes afoxento the Pravus who fights the taking, it makes explosions.
Canyon dug the folded piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it over to Timber.
He gave me that. He also said Sage Greene is really Sage White—or I’m pretty sure he did. Maybe he didn’t actually say it, but when I said Sage, he was thinking White, not Greene…Canyon shook his head, not knowing how to explain what had happened.
“You read his mind,” Timber said. “You’re good at that.”
I’m what?
“You do it to me all the time. I’m just thinking something, and you act like I’m talking to you inruhi.”
No, I don’t.
“Do.”
Before Canyon could argue, Timber unfolded the note and read it.
“You. Danger! End up in the hole? Exit cave. North side. Code is APHOX. Don’t sleep. MONSTER.”
Timber read it again, then said, “Monster is underlined three times.”
What, like the energy drink?
Timber laughed. “Don't sleep, for real.” He refolded the note and stuck it in his cargo pocket. “You know where there’s a big-ass hole…”
At the top of Morning Bluff.
“Bingo.” Timber said. He tapped an icon on Predator’s screen. “I want to read back through Seb’s investigation notes. There’s a bunch of aerial pictures of the hole included.”
It is big.
“Two miles wide, three miles long, with underground areas and caves? Yeah, it’s huge, and no one has ever mapped it.”
