Chapter 25: When to dance, when to dodge

It was Cass that noticed it first. Their lights were off and they were moving through traffic normally, but they could all sense something menacing. It wouldn't seem abnormal to anybody else on the road, except that there were now three of them, and they were making all the same turns as Pat and Conlan.

"They've been following us for two blocks," Pat said in the silence.

Sol looked through the window pensively. "I can sense humans in the car. They aren't demons, but they aren't quite right either. They seem to be ... sick... tainted ... like the demons." There was a sort of blackness that obscured their biological rhythms from his senses. He could just make out their features. They looked like normal humans.

"They might not want to pull us over with people around," Felicity reasoned. "We should keep moving until we have a good plan."

"How do we get that 'plan' to the other team?" Sol aked.