Chapter 9Time seemed to speed up after that. Reenah’s mother and father, Mara and Tae, made an effort to move more quickly, embracing a daughter they hadn’t seen in almost a decade. Watching them, I think almost everyone in the room had tears in their eyes. Still, there was no time to linger.
“Transport is on the way, ETA two minutes,” Callie said. “Let’s get these people downstairs and back to safety.”
“The guards?” I asked.
“My team is already on it. The warpers are still out of commission, but I have plenty of questions for them when they’re ready to talk.”
“You think they’ll talk?” my dad mused.
“Oh, I know they will,” Callie said darkly. “You just leave them to me, Alec.”
By the time we’d herded Reenah’s parents and the others downstairs, a large tour bus had pulled up and was i
