“Fine, but you need to tell him that I’m mute. I don’t need any more complications. I just need my father to let me go, so that I can have a freakin’ normal life.”
“Ha! Normal is so overrated. But I’ll do as you wish.”
She’d shoved Hollyn out of the door and pointed her in the direction of the small airstrip. Without looking back, Hollyn had pulled her coat tighter around her and put her hands in her pockets, putting one foot in front of the other in the right direction.
“Please tell me she at least sent you in the direction of a warmer climate.”
“Good news for you, Bertie. We’re headed to a tropical island. You’ll have an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet the whole way there.”
Chapter 3
ALOUD CLANK SOUNDEDsharply on the concrete floor as Kai Iona slammed the metal wrench to the ground.
“Dammit! Come on! Why won’t this fucking thing work?”
“Um, hello?”
The high-pitched voice didn’t sound human, but Kai put his hands on his knees and pushed to a standing position. Confusion rolled over him as he viewed the woman standing in the center of the hangar. In the shadows of the airplane hangar, her hair looked like white blonde with pink highlights, and her figure was slight. She couldn’t be taller than five foot and a half. Even in the half-light of the warehouse-style building, she was beautiful, but her face held weighty thoughts.
Time stretched on into silence as he waited for her to speak again.
He grew impatient. “Did you say something?”
“Are you Kai Iona? The pilot?”
“Who’s asking?”
“Baba Yaga sent us.”
His confusion grew as he met the woman’s wide gaze. Her lips hadn’t moved at all.
“How did you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Speak without using your mouth.”
