Dash’s POV
“You sure about this, kid?”
I’m standing in front of Liam Shields—the guy who just called me “kid”—and the fifty-four Protectives who accompanied him to the Deviant Academy to help him find his missing sister. I spent the last hour filling them and the headmaster in on everything Rachel and Nate told me, then proceeding to watch them fill in all of their people back at the Protective Society Headquarters.
And now I’m insisting on Blinking the lot of us straight there.
“What’s the largest number of people you’ve ever Blinked?” Headmaster Tinsdale asks me, frowning. “It could really do a number on you, kid. Don’t you want to stay as strong as you can for the battle we’re about to undertake?”
Of course, I do. The woman I love—yes, I’ve accepted it; no, I don’t care if you t
