"...That's not good."
Silence followed.
Very long silence.
The kind of silence that made Alice want to pretend she had suddenly forgotten how to read.
Because maybe—
Maybe she'd imagined the glowing sentence.
Maybe she was hallucinating.
Maybe stress had finally broken her brain.
Alice pointed at the letter.
"Tell me that doesn't say hunters."
Nobody answered.
Alice looked at Jake.
Jake looked at the letter.
Alice looked at Evelyn.
Evelyn looked like she might pass out.
Wonderful.
Fantastic.
Amazing.
Alice clapped her hands once.
Loudly.
"Okay! So we're panicking now?"
Jake immediately looked at her.
"We're not panicking."
Alice stared at him.
"...Jake."
"We're strategically concerned."
She blinked.
Then blinked again.
"Strategically concerned?"
Jake nodded ser
