" Typical Phoenix," Sy smirked as he pulled Tanya's leg out from underneath a soot-covered Frank. "Burns down the house for a piece of ass." Hey! Watc...h it, buster!" Tanya griped as she swung wildly at her unknown molester. "Oh. Hi, Sy, what's up?"Frank groaned as he woke up, yawned a deep breath of warm, dusty ash from Tanya's hair into his mouth and immediately began to choke."Oh, shit!" Tanya exclaimed and she looked around and realized that she'd completely torched their house and that Frank. There was some dried cereal and canned stuff, but the electricity was out and everything in the fridge had gone bad. I ate a can of stewed tomatoes or something, and some vienna sausages, then I had to lie down again."Camille paused, her haunted eyes seeing a faraway place and time. "I don't know how long I slept, but when I awoke, I was feeling a little stronger and I was ravenous. I managed to shower and put on fresh clothing. There was a deli down the block from our condo, so I thought I. "All clear," he whispered, "come on up."First Liv, then Grannie climbed out. The sound of machine gun bolts slamming back and forth punctuated the eerie night. They could hear bullets tearing through wood and glass."They must have suppressors on their guns," Finn whispered as he crept over to one of the windows facing the house. "That's why we can barely hear the gunshots." He slowly raised his eyes to the glass. The carnage was astounding. There were about twenty shadowy figures lined up,. ?Because you?re an agent. When this mission is over, we?ll have to leave. Whether you?re in love or not, we?ll have to go. And it?s possible to track him, nudge him, push him into becoming a person who would join us. It has happened before, but not often. But you would have to wait a decade. A decade where you could only watch him from a distance, because he would have to earn his way in despite you, rather than because of you. And after all that, he may not love you any more.?I held her.