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spent a ton of time fiddling around with all of the flashing lights, alone in her room tucked in a quiet corner of the hotel.
    “Hey. How old are you?”
    Model eyed him. “Twelve. Why?”
    “Twelve, twelve? Or fourteen hundred, twelve?”
    She furrowed her brow. “Are you on drugs?”
    He scratched his head. “You should probably talk to Hawa when we get back.” Apparently, Modem didn’t know what the whole dreamwalker thing consisted of. The poor kid still didn’t know she wouldn’t age much more, no matter how old she was. Of course nobody had really confirmed it yet, but from what he had seen, his theory was pretty solid.
    “Okay.” She stretched out the word. “Anyway, where were you before you came here?”
    “Doesn’t matter.” His thoughts flashed to Zanya. “Not anymore.” He tossed the weed to the ground, determined to stop doing that—stop thinking about her at random times, when he wasn’t prepared and it hurt him the most. “So,” he continued. “You hacked into my dream and blocked Contessa from seeing me?”
    “Pretty much. Who is she?”
    “A witch. She’s powerful, and she’s using that book to do something really not good.” The image of hands reaching up through the soil flashed through his mind.
    “So the book is important?”
    Jayden nodded. “It has a bunch of Mayan history in it and is loaded with important stuff that needs to be kept safe.”
    Over the next hour, he tried to explain everything to the girl with as much honesty as he could, while not making it sound too scary. There was no telling how much she could handle. But the fact was, it was a matter of life or death. Contessa wouldn’t waste her time on small stuff. If she succeeded at whatever she was up to, it would be bad news for everyone. Including the kid.
    “Then I guess we don’t have a choice,” Modem said. “I’ll help you get it back.” She hopped off the ledge and walked back toward the hotel.
    “Wait. What?” He followed her down the walkway. “No way. It would be too dangerous.”
    She blew out a puff of air. “Yeah, ’cause you did a peachy job keeping yourself out of trouble last time, didn’t’cha? Face it. You need me. If you wanna get that book, you need me to hack into your seeker-vision-thing and keep her from knowing you’re snooping around. Then you can get close enough to snatch the book.”
    He had to admit, the kid had a good idea. He pressed his lips into a tight line. “Hawa would kill me.”
    “She doesn’t have to know. Not unless you tell her.”
    Jayden walked in silence, considering her proposition. She could come in handy. Then again, she could get herself killed.
    “What’s up with you and Brisa, anyway? You guys dating?”
    Jayden shrugged. “No.” He paused. “I don’t know. Maybe.”
    She snorted. “Doesn’t sound like you are if you don’t know.”
    “It’s complicated. What’s going on between her and Blade?”
    Modem crinkled her nose. “She didn’t tell you?”
    “It’s obvious they were a thing, but past that, I didn’t ask.”
    “I’ll tell you, but only if you swear not to tell her I told you, ’cause she’d be really mad.”
    “Okay, sure.”
    “Seriously. I don’t trust you. If you want me to, you have to earn it.”
    He drew an X over his chest and lifted two fingers. “Boy Scout’s honor.”
    Modem rolled her eyes. “It’s three fingers, genius.” She chuckled. “Anyway, so yeah, they used to be a thing. The thing, actually. It was a lot better back then. The hotel was kept in pretty good shape thanks to Brisa being on top of everything. She looked after the kids—like, really looked after them. She cared about what they ate and found a way to get them to the public clinic if they were sick. It was like having a big sister who was a local badass. But she was always by Blade’s side, no matter what. The rules were enforced, but not with fear, like they are now. And nobody ever went missing or got kicked out.” Her eyes