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This was the first I’d heard of such a thing, but I wouldn’t argue that it was unnecessary The clouds above Towerline proved its necessity easily enough

"Agent,"her hand "Chuck Merit Catcher Bell, my associate"

She nodded at them "I’m based in New York, but I’ve heard a lot about your work in Chicago" She looked at us "And I’ve heard a lot about you, Ethan and Merit"

"Do you know Victor Garcia?" Ethan asked He was the head of New York’s Cabot House

"I do," she said with a wry sood wishes if I saw you, and said you could call him if you wanted to checkthat she’d prepared for this o?"

"The peace and quiet," she said, without ic?"

"Let’s do," randfather said

"We’ve scanned the building looking for heat signals andSorcha, if she has returned to Chicago, isn’t in the building The chopper will be reporting ainst her ear as the thwack of helicopter blades began to beat the air overhead "First copter report co in," she said "Andthe roof is empty There’s no indication of movement or activity"

"Is it colder up there?" Catcher asked "Directly beneath the cloud formation?"

She lifted her brows but repeated the question into her headset "That’s affirrees colder in the space between Towerline and the phenomenon"

She pushed the mouthpiece away, looked back at us "What does that mean?"

I looked at Catcher, who seeaze was on the cloud swirling ominously above the tower, hands on his hips as he tried to ferret out its

"It has to be the source of the weather, but I don’t knohy The last tiical, was"

"Mallory," I finished for hi her thankfully brief stint as a dark sorceress She’d torn the city apart

"Yeah," Catcher said "The wards say this is Sorcha But I’ it, or what it’s supposed to be doing"

I crossed rees instantaneously,wind

"She’s going to freeze us out," Ethan said