Something grabbed me by the collar and I was airborne before my eyes opened.
Wind hit my face. Cold, fast, carrying the stench of the city below. My brain scrambled to catch up with my body, which was already several stories above the Company building and rising.
Kassie had me by the back of my shirt in one hand. In the other, she had Evangeline, who was wide-eyed and rigid, her blonde hair whipping behind her, her mouth open in a scream that the wind tore away before it could form.
'What the—'
We cleared the rooftops. Los Arcos spread beneath us in a patchwork of dim lantern light and dark alleys, and Kassie was flying across the sky like the air owed her a road. Each step was efficient enough to cover so much distance that the next time she was landing, it was definitely on a building and the city blurred beneath us.
She hadn't said a word.
