Zero"s entire body reverberated with the message, “Salt in the water! Warn them!” and she sat up, knocking Alaric and Raven both away. Alaric"s head snapped up and he was half way out the door before Zero had processed the input crashing into her and got her shields up.
Raven stopped at the door to the room, leaning out for a long moment into the hallway before she was throwing clothes at Zero.
The village was under attack, and the chaos swirling around her was almost too much and she had to double up her shields to function enough to struggle into the jeans. Maddie was there suddenly, her face worried. “We have to go.”
Somewhere in the distance an explosion sounded, and the building trembled around them. Zero shoved her feet into her broken-in tennis shoes and followed as Raven led the
