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about this? Every minute we waste here is a minute we lose finding him.”
    â€œGive us fifteen minutes to come up with a plan,” Allie said, “and get some backups in place.”
    â€œYou do that.” Sunny walked toward the door. “Shame, you’re with me.”
    â€œI don’t think so.”
    â€œYou owe me,” she said.
    Terric looked over at me and raised his eyebrows. “What do you owe her?”
    â€œAnd I’ll pay up,” I said, ignoring him. “But I’m not driving three hundred and fifty miles to an empty warehouse without a little more info.”
    â€œWhat else do you need to know?” she asked. “That’s his signature. He was there. Now he’s not. You and I go find out where he went from there.”
    â€œShame’s not a Hound,” Allie said.
    â€œMeaning?” she asked.
    â€œHe won’t be any good at tracking Davy.”
    â€œHey,” I said.
    â€œYou don’t need Shame to help you find where Davy went anyway,” she said. “You can do that. All you need Shame for is to kill the people holding him.”
    â€œI’ve got guns,” she said.
    â€œGuns won’t be enough,” Terric said. “And neither will Shame.”
    â€œOh, come on, now,” I said. “Right here. I’m sitting right here.”
    â€œWe tried it that way.” Terric threw me a look. “Shame and I together, we tried stopping Krogher and Eli Collins and the kidnapped people they’d carved up to hold magic. It didn’t work.”
    What he was omitting was that we’d pulled on Life and Death magic against them and taken down half a hospital defending against the magic and tech Eli was using with his boss, Krogher. Terric had nearly died. Dessa Leeds had died. I’d come out of the entire event in a killing mood that wasn’t anywhere near done yet.
    â€œWe’ll find Davy,” he was saying. “But no one is going to walk into a trap.”
    â€œHow can this be a trap?” she said. “That warehouse is empty. You have eyewitness confirmation.”
    â€œMaybe,” Terric said. “But if I were a government agency that wanted to get rid of Soul Complements who could stop it from using people—people like Davy, people like those they’ve kidnapped and turned into weapons—I’d start by luring a couple Soul Complements out into the middle of nowhere, then picking them off nice and easy in an empty warehouse.”
    â€œOne Soul Complement,” Sunny said. “You aren’t invited, Terric.”
    â€œWhere Shame goes, I go.”
    They had themselves a little staring match. Terric won.
    Well, this was fun and all, but that hunger inside me wasn’t backing off. Time to move this along.
    â€œDash, do you have someone on this?” I asked. “A Hound or two?”
    â€œTry a dozen,” he said.
    Sunny exhaled loudly. “I’m going.”
    â€œThey don’t need you there,” Zayvion said.
    â€œDavy needs me.”
    â€œAlive,” Allie said. “He needs you alive.”
    â€œSo we sit here?” she demanded. “Do nothing?”
    â€œWe make a plan,” Terric said. “And we gather information so we’re not going into something blind. Dash, have the Spokane Hounds uncovered anything yet?”
    Dash pushed his glasses closer to his nose and glanced at Sunny. “We have three leads saying they disappeared in three different directions. The moment they find out which one isn’t a wild-goose chase, they’ll call.”
    â€œAnd that’s when we’ll go get Davy,” Terric said to Sunny.
    â€œGood for you,” she said. “Sit here and wait for all I care. I’m out.” She started toward the door.
    â€œSunny,” Terric said. “Don’t go after him.”
    â€œSee you around.” She stormed across the room and slammed the door behind