Chapter 46: The Lower Basins

The street came in. Water hit Evan at the chest and took his feet. Daniel's rope snapped tight around the loading-stair rail, and Evan swung against it, coughing, one arm hooked over the line. Su did not reach for him. Her hands hung open at her sides and burned from the wrists down, and she let them hang. Marisol took the silver blanket from the woman out of cell five, who gave it over without being asked, and drew it up Reina's body to the chin. Qing sat on the flank of the van with Leon's cane across her knees. She had not made a joke since Marisol said "Both gone," and Su did not expect one. Reina's blue key coil still hung through the broken window, knocking against the door each time the current shifted. Su knew that sound. She had heard Reina tap each key against her palm…