PENNY POV
We hadn’t been able to reach my brothers to tell them everything.
Not to say Perse was gone, the city’s greenhouse was destroyed, her phone had been found cracked in the dirt, and the last words she had managed to send us were still burning holes through my ribs.
THE TRIPLETS ARE TAKING ME—
I had read those words so many times they had stopped looking like language.
They had become something else.
A curse.
A wound.
A line of black teeth chewing its way through my chest every time I blinked.
It didn’t sit right with me, leaving my brothers in the dark. Nothing about it sat right with me. But they were Goddess knew where on some Council mission, and we couldn’t lose even one more second chasing shadows through a cellphone that wouldn’t even ring.
I asked if we could invol
