Thirty-fiveThe impasse reached, Tears stood his ground. Ana. That slip of a girl had burrowed under his skin. She'd attacked him at the station, run away down the sewers and saved him from the clutches of the Silencers in the hospital. What fate they had in store for him, he wasn't sure, but he knew deep down that whatever they had in mind was probably more horrifying than anything he could possibly imagine. She'd stepped in from nowhere and taken down the huge hospital guard with ease. From nowhere. He wondered about that, the veil now well and truly pulled back. Everything in crystal clarity. The waking up in the hospital, the questions, the curious manner of the Silencer, the inflection in their voices, deep penetrating stares behind dark glasses. And that was not all; the cities and to
