Chapter FiveThe bus ride lasted for hours. With no light besides the dim running lights on the edges of the aisle and nothing changing besides the occasional movement in the distance. Everything was getting boring and Ticcen could only think about all the cops wrecking the place she had worked so hard to clean before they left. She was thinking of how they were planting all of listening bugs and all other kinds of other things her imagination was coming up with.
She heard the sound of shattering glass behind her, then the screaming. Before she had a chance to turn around her own window shattered and a beam of sunlight struck her in the face. It felt like fire and without thinking she dove to the floor. Panic set in as the confusion and the sunlight spread.
“Noctio,” Boron screamed and ra
