“So, what happened last night?”
He frowned at her question. “How do you mean?”
“The headless guy in the alley? I’m hoping he wasn’t a friend. If he was . . . not sure I should let you stay here for long.”
He snorted at her light tone. “Don’t worry. Friends, I bleed out fast. Don’t usually beat them before I kill them.”
She turned to face him with a slack jaw. “Joke?”
“Since I have no friends . . . yeah.”
“Because you killed them?”
Jinx gave her a droll stare as he fastened his collar. “Really? You went there?” He sat down slowly and grimaced. “You do realize, Evelita Itxara Erixour, that with the number of kills on your balance sheet that you’d only be one rank below me if you were a League assassin, right?”
Irritated, she held her finger up. “Okay, right there. It is extremely annoying that all of you know so much about me when I know absolutely nothing about you. How do you do that?”
He pulled his link out, aimed it at her face and then handed it to her. “That shows up on the lens of my left eye.”
She took the link, looked at the screen, then had to sit down as she saw basically her entire life laid out there. “Are you kidding me? I thought I was off-grid.”
“Most do . . . they’re not.”
On and on, the information went. “How much shows up?”
“Pretty much anything I want to know. Right down to the fact that you had a dog named Fritz when you were eight.”
“Shit!”
“Yeah.”
She turned it around to him and took his picture.
Nothing showed up.
“What the hell!”
He smirked. “We have a different database.”
“Can you access it?”
“One more rank and I can.”
Unbelievable. “So how do you see anything if you have all this info scrolling across your eye all the time?”
“We can turn it off and on as we need to.”
“Terrifying.”
He held his hand up and then tapped his ear. “Shadowborne.”
Realizing that he was taking a call, she didn’t speak.
“No, sir. I’m on target. Didn’t see anything last night.” He frowned as he listened to whomever he was speaking to. “No, I haven’t seen him. Last I heard, he was on assignment on Caron.” He listened for a few more seconds. “Yes, sir. Thank you.”
Jinx tapped his ear, then reached for his link.
She watched as he typed in something.
