The man finally took notice of them, glancing over his shoulder and snarling as if he meant to rip Cassi's throat open. “Keepers,” he said. “About time. This was always going to end bloody.”
Rajel drew his pistol.
He was suddenly distracted by spatial awareness projecting the image of a figure rising up from behind Marini's house and landing perched on the roof. It was human but like nothing else Rajel had ever encountered.
At this distance, it was hard to make out minute detail, but Rajel could sense that this newcomer was bald and shirtless for some reason. And there was something attached to his chest. Something that looked almost like a piece of technology.
He had no time to think, however, because the bald man leaped from the roof and flipped in midair, straightening to land in th
