Chapter Five
WE SPENT THE FIRST half of the drive filling Hayley in. The rest of it was quiet and tense, all of us probably contemplating our mortality.
Even my serially talkative best friend kept her mouth shut, in a rare show of respect for the group mood. I periodically checked to make sure Luca was still following us on the bike, and hadn’t been swallowed by a giant snake, or anything. With the day we were having, I might not even be surprised. Otherwise, I used that time to try to process everything that had happened.
A legend had actually tried to kill me and my team. There was no other explanation. But why?
I’d lived in Rome for three years, and the legend communities generally left us alone. They had their own spaces, and they had their own followers. The ones that lived in Old
