He groaned. "Worst. Job. Ever." He didn't even know how much they paid him, and he was already responsible for two reconstructions in one day.
As the group exited the ruined cathedral, Tommy squinted at the moonlit sky. "So… is that it? Feels a little too easy?"
Jade's smile faded. He pulled the recovered piece fragment of Seal from his coat a cracked disc of black iron. His fingers brushed over its surface, and the relic disintegrated into ash. "This is a decoy. Someone fed Ezzy's tracking a lie."
Meanwhile at Midnight Espresso Café while the SACU were trying to figure out what to do next a man with crimson eyes sipped his black coffee, before him a woman licked scarlet lips, her heels tapping the floor. "Your puppet failed," she purred. "The contractors lives."