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thought it was so important to go running down the halls yelling my head off.
    I cowered feeling stupid, before I rose to my feet, my head lowered. I wanted to turn and run, heck, I wanted to hide. I could feel the heat of those purple flames. Fire and ice at the same time but I had to save my cat.
    “We left –” Just thinking about my fat tabby-spotted cat made the emotion rise up in my throat. I tried to control my voice wobbling. “We left me and Reaver’s cat in his basement. It’s a basement of a home, completely reinforced with concrete; no one knows where it is. He’ll die in there. Could, I wouldn’t be any bother. I would be quiet. Please, please can you let me quickly get him? The house is remote. No one will see me, I promise.”
    I slunk down, feeling my head go hot under his stare. Never more did I feel like a dirty, out of place flea in a world I was quickly realizing I didn’t understand.
    “You will not be leaving this base.”
    I was too devastated to even cry. I managed a small nod before I stepped away from him to let him pass by me. Even though the hallway was big enough for him to walk around.
    I pressed myself up against the beige walls, needing something to support myself as the reality of Biff’s fate sunk in. At what point will my fat cat realize we wouldn’t be coming home? At what point would he feel the first pang of hunger when his bowl ran out? How long would it take for him to die, wondering why we had trapped him inside.
    I started to whimper, I held my hand to my mouth to stifle the tears. I realized as I tried to hide my face, that Elish was still staring at me.
    “I’ll be needing make an appearance in Aras; I was planning on doing it after my stop in Skyfall. However, if Mr. Nevada is familiar with the area and is of sound state of mind, I will go there first and allow him to gather a small amount of –”
    I wrapped my arms around him. I have no idea why. It was one of those things you wonder many many years later just what the heck was wrong with you. I think I was just frazzled and had mentally reached my limit. Any sort of good news felt like the world to me at this moment.
    If hugging Reaver was like embracing a rock at times, hugging Elish was like hugging the planet Pluto. I was too far into it now to recoil and run though, so I finished hugging him and pulled away.
    “Thank you,” I said quietly.
    I felt an awkward hand pat my back. “It is of no consequence.” Elish’s tone didn’t waver, but I saw a flicker of perplexity in his gaze that quickly diminished with an upturn of his eyes. I saw he was looking at something; I turned around and saw Jade staring at us, looking just as perplexed.
    “Is Mr. Nevada ready?” Elish gracefully walked past me and started walking back to the garage with Jade
    Jade gave me a fleeting glance before he turned around and followed Elish. I didn’t have anywhere else to go, so I walked with them. I wanted to ask Reno to pick up several more things from the basement anyways.
    I jumped into the plane and got my satchel bag. As Jade was helping Perish fuel the plane I started writing down things I wanted him to bring. Before they were ready for takeoff I had handed off the list to him. Biff, Reaver’s gun, Reaver’s drug suitcase, the black bag he had of ammo and explosives, my guitar and our clothing. I felt badly making Reno get all those things, but I was sure Elish would help him.
    With a few more tears on my part I said goodbye to my friend, my heart heavy and full of anxiety. I stood back and watched the platform rise; when it lowered the plane was gone.
    I was alone now, with my dead boyfriend, the chimera who had kept me prisoner... and Elish Dekker’s yellow-eyed cicaro.
    “I’m going to put Reaver in his freezer now,” Perish said. He had Reaver slung over his back. “Killian, I will help fix up your wounds when I am done.”
    I gripped the door frame with my hands, feeling the sickening realization that I was all