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He let the thought trail off with a small shudder

“No, it’s fine,” Kai said sharply, and I got the feeling he was trying to convince himself his words were true “We just won’t be suspects next time around”

“Really? We won’t? We always are,” Xero pointed out

“Well, next time someone should persuade theful look

I shifted uncoet in touch with Dru”

“Okay,” Kingston said “Anybody got his number?”

“You knoe don’t” Jayce made an exasperated noise

“Then what are our other options?”

“Can’t you have someone on your staff look hi the phone to keep in touch with people at your family’s company Don’t you have an assistant who can help find him?”

He shook his head, looking a little disgruntled “I already tried that Dru isn’t exactly ‘on the grid’ There’s no data on hioes, the man doesn’t exist”

“Shit”

We sat in silence for a while, conte

Maybe there was someone else we could try to reach out to for help? I didn’t have a whole lot of connections left earth-side, and the ones I did have wouldn’t knohere to begin looking for answers Every direction hts took led me back to Dru He was the only person in the world who could help I was sure of it

“Dru used to talk about his awayI could get Cassandra to poke around in the dark corners of my mind a little to see if any information was hidden there “If we can re him somehow”

“He liked Seattle,” Kingston recalled “And Canada Hefor those places”