“You just don’t want me to ruin your fun.”
True. If he were too far gone, I’d have less to work with.
“What the hell is wrong with you guys,” the man wheezed out.
“Nothing.” I stared down at him, my face blank.
The fear that shimmered in his eyes was only the appetizer. I’d see him break down further and watch him lose sight of what it means to be human.
“Sam, your crazy is showing,” Hawke sing-songed.
I blinked away the daydream and shook my head. “You’re certain you have nothing to tell us?”
He looked between the two of us. Hawke took a few practice swings, and the bat made a noise as it cut through the air. The harder he swung, the more wind blew the man’s hair out of his face. If he was afraid before, he was ashen white with terror.
“You’re kids.”
Hawke and I looked at each other. “So?”
The man opened his mouth, but Hawke brought the bat down hard over his lap. The screams we’d grown accustomed to were cut short as the top half of his body fell forward.
“Shit, is it over already?” Rem asked.
Lux was right behind her. His gaze dropped to the man for a second.
“He say anything?”
“No, he wasn’t going to. Either he doesn’t know anything, or whoever he is loyal to scares him more than we do,” I said.
Hawke dropped the bat, and it clattered to the ground. “What are we doing now?”
“Samson, package him up and return him to his owner,” Lux said.
I nodded, knowing I’d figure out exactly where to send him. Push came to shove, his family would be opening a very disturbing package.
“Think Corpse would be into it if I brought her his broken teeth?” Hawke asked. His head tilted in thought. “Or a heart?”
I wonder if she’d freak out.Most people would, but I still couldn’t get a full handle on Keegan Quell. Her daily routine and all the data said she was some average girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Yet I couldn’t squash the nagging feeling she was much more than that.
“Well?” Hawke asked.
“I think she’d prefer a tongue,” Rem said.
“No.” Lux shut them both down instantly.
Without him, I was certain the city would have locked us away. Not that Luxious was any better, but we all had our monsters. His stayed in check as long as he was in charge.
“Where is she?” Lux asked.
I pulled up the app wiping away the blood that smeared on the screen. I expected to see she was at home like she normally was. Keegan didn’t do much. She went for a morning run four days out of the week. She got ready for school and ate a normal balanced breakfast. After school, she returned home and stuck to her room if she didn’t go on another run.
It was almost too easy to get her habits down. She was too predictable, but there was that nagging feeling in the back of my mind, the same one I got when I killed. There was something about her that I hadn’t figured out yet, and if it took me dissecting her, then so be it. I just had to wait for the others to become bored of her.
Slowly blinking, I stared at the screen that showed nothing. There was no pulsating dot to indicate where she was. I checked, and the tracker said offline, but I hadn’t turned it off. The last time I looked was two days ago. A mistake on my part.
“What?” Lux asked.
“I do not know.” I had no clue where Keegan Quell was.