Page 37 of Hijack the Seas: Tsunami

You lead an interesting life, echoed in my head.

“Mircea?”I said hopefully, and then the timber of the voice hit.Mentally, Bodil still sounded like Bodil, and bizarrely, she seemed amused.I would never understand the fey!

But I understood being trampled if I tried to run and hold a conversation at the same time, so I dragged Butch Cut into a room off of the insanely packed main hall.It wasn’t much; it looked like a janitorial closet, and the door wouldn’t fully shut, but it was better than being flattened outside.If not by much, I thought, as the earth quaked around us and everyone screamed, almost in unison.

“Where are we?”Butch Cut demanded as a steady stream of mages pounded down the shuddering hallway.

“HQ,” I told her breathlessly.“Where are you?”I asked Bodil.

“Right here,” Butch Cut said, frowning.

Making our way to you—

“Well, make it fast!The gods are here!”

So we saw, it was dry.

“Make what fast?”Butch Cut said.“What’s wrong with you?”

Too much to list, I thought, and heard Bodil chuckle.

I was glad someone was having fun!

“Fey in my head,” I said to my companion, which didn’t seem to help.“Bodil, the tall, elegant one?”

Butch Cut nodded.

“She and the others are headed this way—”

“They can’t come here now!They’ll bekilled!”

You think I’m elegant?Bodil asked wryly.

“Butch Cut has a point,” I told her.“Plus, we’re underground—”

I know.Interesting place...ah, there it is.

“There what is?Where are you?”

Here, in the complex.I just opened the door.The mages had shut it again, and—where are you?

“Down the corridor to the left.Don’t take the one on the right; it’s booby-trapped.They always booby trap—”

I distantly heard Æsubrand swear and didn’t know if he was that close or if his voice was an echo in Bodil’s mind.

Yes, it is booby-trapped, she confirmed.One moment.

“Where are they?”Butch Cut demanded.“What’s going on?You know we can’t stay here, right?”

“Yeah, kinda got that,” I said, as the ceiling partly caved in along with a bunch of dried-up tree roots.I pulled her into the doorway, the lintel of which was reinforced.

Cassie!Pritkin’s voice suddenly sounded so loud in my ear that my whole head rang with it.

“Aughhhh!”I said, and he swore.

I’m trying to boost the power on this thing.That cloak you’re wearing has been interfering—

“I’m not wearing it now!Turn it down!Turn it down!”

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