Chapter Three: Skye and Jalan
As Skye was eating her breakfast of eggs and bacon, she perked up, listening hard.
Shit, she thought, they can't be here! Not now!
But they were- and she kicked Jalan in the shin. He frowned at her. She sent him a look that told him that they were there. He continued to eat as if nothing had happened. She tapped his knee once, twice, three times, and they stood up and ran out of the restaurant, snapping their wings open as soon as they got outside and taking off into the starry night.
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"How in the hell do they keep finding us?" Skye raged at Jalan once they had found shelter. She had spotted a cave in the side of a mountain and they had decided to spend the night there… or stay until it was safer.
"I don't know," Jalan answered. He knew better than to interfere with Skye on one of her rants. "But they shouldn't find us here."
"God dammit, they're freaking Erasers! They can find us anywhere!"
"Skye, you need to calm down… you're only going to get yourself angrier." She scowled at Jalan, who was sitting cross-legged on the dirty cave floor. "You know I'm right."
"Fine… but what are we going to do?"
"I say we lay really low for a while," Jalan offered. Skye looked at him, and the pain and fear in her eyes was enough to make him scoot over to her and put a comforting arm around her. "Hey, it'll be okay," he said soothingly. Skye just buried her face in his shoulder, hoping with all her heart that he was right.
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The sun rammed into Skye's eyelids and she turned over onto her other side in protest.
"No," she mumbled.
"What?" Jalan asked.
"Make the sun go away."
Jalan laughed as he gently walked over to where she was lying and gently pulled her to her feet. She was weak from exhaustion, and she ended up leaning against him. Winding an arm around her waist, Jalan helped her walk from the cave into the city. There were people everywhere, and once Skye had woken up, she was tense as ever.
She hoped no one would recognize them.