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Priest slipped on his headphones. “The prison’s not that far.”
    I stiffened. “Why would you ever want to go back there?” The thought of going anywhere near West Virginia State Penitentiary made my skin crawl.
    Priest turned to Jared. “You didn’t tell her?”
    “Tell me what?”
    Jared bit his lip. “After the four of us met up on the other side of the state line, we went back to the prison to find the Shift.” He paused for a long moment.
    “It was gone.”

D o we still need the Shift?” I tried to sound curious, but thinking about it brought back nothing but bad memories.
    Lukas glanced at me in the rearview mirror again. “No. The Shift served its purpose. But we figured it was better off with us.”
    “Just in case,” Priest said.
    “In case of what?” My shoulders tensed, and Jared pulled me closer. My body fit into the space underneath his arm perfectly. “Did you find something new in the journals?”
    “Priest, what’s your malfunction?” Lukas shot him a warning look. “She’s been locked up in that place for weeks.”
    “Sorry.” Priest frowned and pushed his bangs under his orange hood. “Even if it’s useless, a member of the Legion probably designed it. I can’t stand the idea of some kid finding it in the rubble a few months from now.”
    “He just wants to take it apart and see how it works,” Alara said from where she was stretched out in the third row.
    “It’s a badass piece of mechanical engineering,” Priest said. “Of course I wanna take it apart.”
    I settled back into the space under Jared’s arm, relieved. Priest was just being Priest. “So what have you guys been doing since…” I didn’t want to bring up the night at the penitentiary. “Since we got separated?”
    Jared squeezed my shoulder. “Looking for you.”
    “I have no idea what they were doing before I started helping them,” Elle said, gesturing wildly. “But we’ve been doing all kinds of stuff for the last four days. Searching for birth certificates, making lists of all the towns with crazy weather, making charts of demon trails.”
    “She means patterns,” Lukas said.
    “Exactly.” Elle nodded, launching ahead. “And Alara lied to a priest. She gave him some sob story about needing holy water to heal her sick dog, so he’d bless a bucket of tap water for us.”
    “If we run into another vengeance spirit, you’ll thank me,” Alara said.
    “How many vengeance spirits are we talking about?” I turned to Jared without realizing how close his face was to mine.
    His blue eyes flickered down to my lips for a second. “Just a few before we picked up Elle. Nothing Andras-level.”
    Like the mirror in my dorm room?
    I couldn’t tell them yet. Jared had already been stabbed with a piece of glass because he was worrying about me instead of himself. If he found out about the mirror, he’d be even more distracted.
    “I’ve been tracking crime and violence that might be related to Andras,” Lukas said. “All the mass murders have taken place between—”
    “West Virginia and Pennsylvania,” I finished for him. I pictured the walls in my dorm room, wishing I could show them to him. “I was looking for patterns, too. If we get a map at the gas station, I can re-create some of them.”
    Lukas gave me a strange look. “Okay.”
    Priest shook his head at me. “The things I could build with a memory like yours.”
    Lukas ignored him, his eyes catching mine in the mirror. “That’s also the area where all the girls disappeared.”
    At the mention of the missing girls, I looked away.
    “You know, they all kinda look like—” Priest began.
    “I know.” I cut him off.
    “We don’t have to talk about it right now.” Alaraleaned over the seat and silenced Priest with a look. “There’s a truck stop before the next town.” She pointed at a sign.
    “Thank god,” Elle said, tousling her dark red waves with her fingers. “I’m in need of a serious caffeine fix.”

    “Where is