Chapter Eight
She listened to him with eyes growing wider by the second. When she tried to pull back her hand, he clamped down on her wrist. “You owe me, Kiri Ishida,” he said. “You would never have made it off Peregrine without my help. You needed it to complete your mission. Now I need your help to complete mine.”
“No one has given you a mission,” she said. “I had orders—”
“So do I,” Lorn said. “Standing orders. The oath I took to preserve and protect Peregrine against all enemies.” He surprised himself by meaning it. For once, the enemies wouldn’t be fellow Peregrine citizens. It made a nice change.
“It’s not the same!” she said. “If I help you, I’ll be breaking my oath—”
“If you don’t help me, I’ll try to do it on my own,” Lorn said.
“You can’t get access.”
“Then I’ll get a weap
