“Wait!”
She pulled off the monster mask before the guy wearing it could find the wherewithal to do so.
“Ben?”
Ben nodded up at me, cradling his nose, which, for reasons I would have to look into, had already been bandaged. “Hi.”
“What are you doing here?”
“I asked your mother where to find you,” he admitted.
“Why were you fighting with Robbie?”
“I saw you two freaking out, and he was just standing there with this creepy look on his face, and… and it seemed like a good idea at the time!”
I looked back at the crowd where Robbie had disappeared. With an almost uncontrollable fit of nausea, I understood which voice was strongest in the amalgam I kept hearing.
“It was,” I said. “He killed the hunters. He’s the Shard, and he did this to me!”
“He’s what?” Haley gasped.
It had been him
