Chapter 30
“What?!” Valerie wobbled on the bench and Michelle rested a hand on her shoulder to steady her.
“Where did they go?” the woman was looking about the tea stall frantically. Under the bench, behind the tea merchant. There weren’t all that many places in the tiny tent.
Michelle tightened her grasp to keep Valerie from running out of the stall looking for them.
The Buddha was consulting his phone. “I set them to follow this Ron Schmidt soul at the fastest turnover rate that our system will allow.”
“But—” Valerie still hadn’t grasped that they were gone.
Michelle considered. While it might have been nice to make a final plan before the men had been sent on their way, this was probably what they would have ultimately done. She decided against second guessing the Buddha.
The tea
