YELLOW TRIANGLESI don’t think anybody could have stopped it. The whole thing started slow enough, but once it got going, it just came faster and faster. You can’t stop something like that. “Warner told me he found two more this week.” Cayden had that look again—that hollow, sunken expression with all the shadows around her eyes. Most days she was pretty, despite the filth smeared across her face. But it all disappeared when she talked about the triangles, her face dropping into a ravine of wonder and shadows. Less than a week since she’d noticed them, and already they’d become her world. Wish I knew why. “Warner says a lot of things,” I told her. “He doesn’t even believe all of it. If he did, he would’ve run by now.” “No, he wouldn’t, Bai.” “He would. Anybody who isn’t an i***t would.”

