Chapter 80

I also frowned. “Which will take time, and time is something we have little to spare.” I turned to Lola. “If we leave them here, they’ll be safe, and we can come back for them once it’s all over.”

“No!” she barked, her voice bouncing off the walls and cutting me to the quick. “I’m not leaving him. Not now. Not after all we’ve been through to find him.”

“But—”

She gripped her hands into fists. “Creature, no. I’m sorry, but I can’t leave him.” And then she unclenched. “Besides, I have another idea.”

“But nothing can cure them,” I told her. “Nothing but salt.”

She shook her head. “Before.”

“Before what?” asked VaVa.

Lola looked from her to her husband and then to me. “Before we discovered that we were Superqueens.”

VaVa smiled. “Ooh, Superqueens. Now that I like the sound of.”

“Figures,” said I. “And what makes you think our powers will work on them?” I asked her.

“They will,” she replied, now staring deeply into her husband’s eyes. “They have to.”