Kaiden's awareness slid out of Creation Mode and snapped back into his body. The screens hovering in front of the sofa dissolved. Warm bodies pressed along his sides.
His eyes opened, and he sat upright. His jaw locked tight, frustrated. The target had escaped questioning. Nothing was left but ash and a crater behind the man who killed his own ally and then self-destructed.
Calypso sat to his right, legs crossed, tail coiling behind her without any grace. Her smile was gone, teeth set together hard.
"I wanted to hear their screams, see their pain, and have them begging for a mercy that would not come."
Alice was on the floor in front of the sofa, sitting between Kaiden's legs, knees pulled up, arms around them. She stared at the blank screen where the explosion had been. Her brows pressed low and tight. She looked like someone deciding exactly how many strips a person could be peeled into.
