(leave the rest to me. his sister's voice plays in the back of his head, faint and sweet but sluggish with sleep.
he shouldn't have let this person follow him, but they're halfway up the ladder and he's still being tailed. that's what the smack was for, an invitation to come along. why is he experiencing regret now?
no matter. they reach the top and hei lets the wind whip at short hair, pulling him further along the roof and closer to the corner of the building. from this vantage point, high above the lantern festival with the digital projections of lights and dragons, they can spot the traffic below and the dots that make up the people who contacted the police. the reverberations of sirens weren't cain's imagination — colours, red and blue, wheel beneath hoverbikes and throw swaths of purple up in their direction.)
They're preoccupied.
...
What's the matter with you? (hei asks, turning back to cain with a cant of his head.) You didn't seem that bothered by the body.
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he shouldn't have let this person follow him, but they're halfway up the ladder and he's still being tailed. that's what the smack was for, an invitation to come along. why is he experiencing regret now?
no matter. they reach the top and hei lets the wind whip at short hair, pulling him further along the roof and closer to the corner of the building. from this vantage point, high above the lantern festival with the digital projections of lights and dragons, they can spot the traffic below and the dots that make up the people who contacted the police. the reverberations of sirens weren't cain's imagination — colours, red and blue, wheel beneath hoverbikes and throw swaths of purple up in their direction.)
They're preoccupied.
...
What's the matter with you? (hei asks, turning back to cain with a cant of his head.) You didn't seem that bothered by the body.