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that mist on the ground. It bit.” Now Sasha judged the distance to the grove. “We can set off the light bombs from there—bolt, bullet, blade, magick.”
    â€œI can do this with my bracelets,” Annika pointed out.
    â€œIt’s a plan.” Riley reached for her wine. “Covers land and air. Now water.”
    â€œHarpoons, knives—a magick assist?” Sawyer added. “And mermaid.”
    Annika smiled. “My bracelets also work well in the water, and I’m faster there than anywhere else.”
    â€œWe’ve never asked,” Sasha began. “How do you communicate with your family? With others like you?”
    â€œOh. It’s . . .” Annika touched her head, her heart.
    â€œYou think. You feel.”
    â€œWe can speak, but it’s often without voice.”
    â€œI see where you’re going.” Riley leaned toward Annika. “How about other sea life? Fish, whale, that sort of thing?”
    â€œWe have understandings. They don’t think as we do, though the whale can be wise, and the dolphin is smart and clever. But fish? They forget quickly.”
    â€œDory.” When Annika looked blank, Sawyer explained. “From a movie. We’ll stream it sometime. They’re wondering if you can maybe sense the bad guys—underwater?”
    â€œOh. I don’t know. They are not fish, not mammal, not people. They’re other. But I can try. I will try.” She set her jaw. “It would help.”
    â€œAn early-warning system. Otherwise, we do what we’ve done?” Sawyer glanced around the table. “Buddy system, stick together, do the work. If things get too dicey, I can shift us. We should have a secondary location. If we have to travel from the water, we’d come here, but if we have to travel from here?”
    â€œHow about Monte Tiberio?” Riley suggested. “High ground.”
    â€œIf that works, I’ll get the coordinates. Meanwhile.”
    Sawyer took out the compass, opened the bronze case.
    When he set it on the map, it glowed, shimmered in place on Capri. But didn’t move.
    â€œGotta work for it,” he said, and pocketed it again.
    â€œI’ll start just that.” Bran rose. “Bullets, bolts, and blades. And bracelets. Interesting.”
    â€œI’ll dig into research. See if I can find out anything about sighs, songs, more underwater caves.” Riley pushed to her feet. “Do you want the map?” she asked Doyle.
    â€œMaybe later.”
    â€œI’ll get dinner started.” Sasha pushed a loose pin back into her bundled-up hair. “Can you help, Annika?”
    â€œYes, I like to help.”
    When Sasha and Annika went inside, Doyle leaned back with his beer, looked at Sawyer. “Happiest siren I’ve ever seen. Nobody would blame you for moving on that.”
    â€œShe doesn’t . . . I don’t think she gets that. It. It’s like hitting on somebody’s little sister. From Venus.”
    â€œLooks all grown-up to me, but your call. How about we take a walk, past the grove. See what, if anything, we might want to fortify.”
    â€œGood thought.”

    W hile they ate under the stars, Andre Malmon adjusted his formal tie. He expected the evening ahead to be a tedious bore, but duty called. He rarely answered when duty called, already regretting doing so now.
    Still, there was a potential for new contacts at this dull charity affair. Contacts were never boring. He wanted something new, something exciting.
    So little excited him these days.
    What hadn’t he done, after all? What hadn’t he seen? What couldn’t he have simply by flicking his fingers?
    His last two adventures—he never called them jobs, though he charged exorbitant fees for his services—had barely amused him. So little challenge.
    The woman he was currently seeing had begun to annoy him just by existing, as did the whore he used