Chapter 50: Pick Pocket

The street bustles with tourist activity, six hours or so behind where we just left. The night is still young, fresh. But I haven't forgotten Sage's internal clock. It has no use for time zones. We may have gained a few hours, but he's still on day four with time running short.

"Now what?" Sage looks up and down the street, turning sideways to block me from a group of teenagers. "We've lost all our stuff."

Our carryons are gone, left behind on the airplane. No money, no papers. But we don't need passports anymore, at least. Money, on the other hand...

"You," I say to him, pushing him toward a small café, open to the air, an empty table next to the sidewalk. I still have the change in the pocket of my dress from paying for his sandwich. "Have a coffee. I'll be right back."