CHAPTER EIGHT
Shell sat down on the left side of the table, while Sarah sat down opposite him on the right side. But Shell wasn’t looking at Sarah; instead, he was looking at the man who called himself Zanni, one of the Venetians. With his brightly-colored costume, strange mask, and funny hat, Zanni looked less like a dangerous supervillain and more like a silly clown, but Shell knew better than to underestimate this man; at least, he knew better than to underestimate the Venetians, despite not having met this particular Venetian before.
The Venetians were a team of supervillains financed by the billionaire John Mann, with each member of the team wearing a mask from Venice’s Carnival of Masks. Their true identities and goals were unknown, but Shell knew that they were not good people; th
