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Juniper
Juniper knew little about the northern part of her home state. She found I-80 and took it west. Tas refused to sleep until they could make their Faraday cage. If the Syndicate found them, he needed to be alert. He had a point. She couldn’t wake him from his last stone sleep and she didn’t want to be caught with a stone gargoyle snoozing in the backseat. Also, he would be stone and heavy. That couldn’t be good for the suspension or the gas mileage, either.
Nothing had really gone smoothly and she felt like she was constantly two steps ahead of disaster, but that was how she felt in her everyday life. The stress was different—but not so different she couldn’t handle it.
As she drove, her stomach rumbled, so she stopped for coffee and a bagel sandwich. Woman couldn’t live on Ha
