Will leaned back, away from the box, before realizing he’d done so. “That’s…it?”
“Yes. Which leads me to another story, one much more recent.” Adi told of finding the original lead box reduced to dust when she’d opened the safe yesterday. “I believe,” she finished, “the destruction of the original box is at the heart of the recent changes in your…” She shrugged. “…powers. For all three of you. The steel safe provided some remaining shielding from this thing. But yesterday, when I opened the safe…”
“We weren’t shielded anymore,” he finished. “When was that?”
“Based on the surveillance video from the Warehouse, the same time you experienced your reactions beside the Peru crate.”
He looked at Fader. “When our powers went whacko. We thought it was because Misty—the Chakana—was in the crate
