“Stay down.”
“Oh, shut up and close closer.”
Zero paused in the doorway, instantly on guard as he watched her struggle with careful movements to sit up in her small bed. The light was off of course, but she clutched a cellphone in one fist that cast a white glow around her and along the wall.
“I said come here,” she urged, and she used her other hand to beckon him over. “So, anything new? What’s going on out there? Haven’t been around for a bit.”
“I’m not making social calls.”
“You look good. Have you lost weight?”
She failed to soften his glare even an inch - and must have seen it somehow through the darkness, as she flicked her wrist in a dismissive wave.
“Never mind. Hurry up, they’ll see you.”
Not a chance. The man who was supposed to be keeping watch in the hallway had fall a
