They left us, and I pulled away from Huitzilopochtli without meeting his gaze but still keeping him in sight. I'd been acting as if I were truly a guest. How monumentally moronic of me. I was a goddamned hostage. I needed to get out of Dodge, and I couldn't depend on Tanto, my trusty sidekick, to help me. As usual, I was alone… and what the hell was the Lone Ranger doing with a sidekick anyway, come to think of it? Didn't his name pretty much indicate that he was more the solitary type?
I looked behind me at the glass doors. The jungle seemed more foreboding than accommodating, but if I could get out into it, I might have a chance to open a tracing point home. I'd never opened one before, but desperation was the mother of success or something like that.
I wondered briefly if Thor was wor
