"Grab that end," she ordered. "I'll -"
"Stay back and don't say anything."
She grinned, half-bent over the corpse as she stared at Zero while he got to work tucking one end of the tarp under Puck's lower body. He had pulled out a small flashlight from one of his many pockets on the carrier vest and set it on the table. On the end that wasn't streaked with blood, that is.
"Are you mad at me?"
He didn't answer. Uh oh. She was in the dog house tonight.
"I had to do what I had to do. I didn't even know if you were still alive, and if you were dead, it wasn't going to hurt you to throw you under the bus that way. Between saving one of us or killing the both of us, which would you have chosen? I think you would have made the same choice as I did if you'd been in my shoes."
"I said don't s
