Page 80 of Night's Fall
“AndI’llanswer your question when you can speak to me rationally.”
“AndI’dbe speaking to you rationally if you’d been behaving rationally and hadn’t walked right in the path of a fuckingPR60,” he clipped, not even slightly doing whatIasked.
SoIlost it and yelled, “Idon’t even know what aPR60is!”
“It’s the weapon he trained on you.Prisonissue, in case an inmate manages to escape the benzos they pump into everything and is able to shift.It’sgot humanoid settings, demon settings, fae, bot, and the strongest,beastsettings.Andit’s powerful enough even to ringmybeast’s bell.Whichwas what that fucker was set at, and you stepped right in gods-damnedfront of itin fuckinghuman form.”
That was the same weapon that killed my beast.
“I wasn’t thinking,”Iwhispered, my mind tumbling over itself.
“No shit?” he bit.
My mind stopped tumbling, and my head ticked. “Iwould appreciate, consideringyou know, a little bit of compassion here,Aleksei.”
“A little bit of compassion for you doing something so motherfucking stupid?” he demanded, just like he thoughtIwas motherfucking stupid.
“It was instinct.”Ithrew up both hands and guessed at whyIdid whatIdid, “You’remy mate.”
“And that venue had twelveRSagents crawling all over it, one two feet behind him, weapon trained.He’dhave been neutralized, except you stepped in front of the gods-damned stream, so he couldn’t stun the fucker, because if he did, and it triggered his finger to stream, you would have been caught in that fire.”
Well…
Whoops.
“Okay, you have to cut me some slack.I’mnew to this,”Isaid.
“Cut you some slack,” he whispered, andIdid not take his change in tone as a good thing.
Oh no.
I could tell it was a bad thing.
Very bad.
I opened my mouth, but he lifted an imperious hand for me to keep quiet, which rankled in a major way, and he shifted his attention over my shoulder.
I turned.
The doors to a lift situated behind me opened.Setand the female agent strode out, and it was only thenInoticed the female was dark fae.
“Scene is locked down.Theteam is already there.TruelockandVinestrongare being transferred to interrogation,DistrictThreeConstabulary.Constablesfrom there as well asDistrictsTwo,FourandFiveare corralling witnesses and gathering evidence, but theRMIis sending agents in to take over,”Setreported.
“Wait, what?”Iwhispered.
“The assailant is being transported to theHold.AndRS,RICandRMIare already squabbling about who’s going to have the first go at him,”Setfinished reporting toAleksei.
He didn’t even spare a glance at me.
I whirled onAleksei. “WhyareCatandGaylebeing interrogated?”
“Because no one knewImight be there, exceptCatandGayle,”Alekseiall but spat.
“They wouldn’t?—”
He dismissed me by orderingSet, “MammonandFreyaTruelockneed to be picked up too.”
“No!”Icried.
