Chapter 3
Lunatics and Madmen
Zaid threw the body over his shoulder with ease and took off running down the street, muttering a string of curses.
This was not how this week should have gone.
He would be having a long discussion with Tahir when he got home. He had been stabbed, compelled, deceived, beaten, and outrun by ubir before, but they were all nearly identical situations. The same manic, unfocused restlessness behind their eyes, behavior barely checked. They couldn’t go long without shedding blood; otherwise, their abilities would start to fade, and the healing would slow.
Never had he seen an ubir so calm and human before. He had come to the conclusion she had recently defected. There wasn’t any other explanation.
The oddities just kept piling up. Was she also able to so compl
