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"Jo," I say, hurrying to join her "Can I help?"

JADA

She sat in the passenger seat of the Hu of stale chips she’d pilfered from a box of supplies in the back

"Talk," Barrons barked as he started the Hummer "What happened to Mac? Were you there when it did?"

Jada recounted the tale, from thedown the alley follohat had looked like an a Barrons’s name; her decision to follow; her subsequent assault by the ZEWs and waking in the warehouse; to the final moments of Mac’s decision to take a spell from the Sinsar Dubh to save them She was about to tell him what happened once Mac had risen frorowled, "Mac"

"Where?" Jada straightened instantly "Stop the Hummer"

"Not here The abbey I just felt her She’s furious"

"Sounds like the Book to , so palpable it seeen from the air

"It’s her I haven’t been able to sense her at all for hours and suddenly she’s--bloody hell--I lost her again"

"Is it a tattoo? Is that how you know Mac’s location?"

"You’re wondering if Ryodan can track you"

"Yes"

"Did he finish the tattoo?"

"Yes"

"Yes"

Jada felt a in to twitch beneath her eye, pressed a chip-salted finger to it and willed it to go still Ryodan hadn’t told her that along with being able to track her if she phoned him--which put the ball in her court--he now had his very own Marauder’s Map of her that he could unfold and observe anytime he chose--which put the ball in his court There was no place she could hide, not with Dancer, not snooping at Chester’s, perhaps not even in Faery "Is it so you have to think about or do you just knohere she is all the tiht"

"You said she was furious Does the tattoo allow you to feel what she’s feeling?"

"Certain emotion At times"

"How accurate and how far is the reach?" she said coolly

"Depends"

"On what?" she said frostily