Chapter 22Namir crouched low. He’d parked some distance away, then he’d shifted and left all his belongings in the car. Now, he was watching the border. He’d studied a map of the community on his phone before throwing it in the glove compartment, he was pretty sure Jinx’s house was about three hundred feet from the border.
He held his breath as the guard walked past. He’d studied them for more than thirty minutes. There were two working this stretch, and they looked tired. The one passing now had stopped to yawn several times, and a few minutes ago, both of them had stopped and chatted for a bit right in front of him. If they’d done it a bit farther away, he’d have run, but they were too close.
He waited, his whiskers flicking as he got spiderwebs on them from moving his head in motion w
