Chapter 75

• Nova followed them. Why would a kid be down here? She already knew the answer, had seen enough evidence of the homeless and forgotten all over the city, but why would one choose down here? When she saw him, she could see how frightened he was. It was hard to know his age with the amount of dirt on him, but she guessed he was mid-teens.
• Bastian moved closer to her, she knew it was him because the tingle started in her arm and traveled up. “It’s okay,” she told the boy. He looked from the blade in Daxx’s hand to Troy and his eyes were bulging. She didn’t blame him there, some of these men were huge. “What’s your name?”
• He looked at Nova, “Sedric, with an S.”