Never Lost

03 - Here We Go Again

 "Mya."

"Yes, Nix?" I glanced up from my perch on the roof of the apartment complex. Our city was as urban as they came and there was something about it I would never get used to. The way the name changed every time a new Electress was appointed, or how the special operations groups kept trying to keep a cut of the territory. The local werewolf pack had lost all control and now their main rivals were looking to expand their territory. And fairies were trying to cut in and sell drugs to teenagers. Dionysus was always sitting drunk in the same bar every Thursday at 11 o clock. 

A thousand stories told by a million people and all we had to show for it was a delayed supply delivery.

I squinted through the scope of my borrowed gun. Why they left me with the assault rifle – the only one in our squad with no distance coordination – I'll never know. Who cared what Zayden said about anyone being able to shoot once you could see through the scope; I didn't become second in command of this shindig by sitting at a distance.

"Watch your shoulders this time, sis." Phoenix continued through the headset. Secretly she was sitting up in command central, at the very top of the Revolution's main headquarters. We had to kill a fortune 500 CEO and his brother to secure all the assets we had. It didn't end very well, but at least we were all alive.

"Yeah, yeah, I promise." I muttered under my breath.

Her voice was hard. Phoenix Revenge was not one to be brushed off. A 'yeah yeah' had gotten better soldiers than I killed; but this time her tone was anything but murderous."For real, please just be careful – I can't bail you out this time, My – that flash bomb your old friend set off messed with my ability to move through the shadows. Dylan and Zay are having the same problem. May I remind you that our backup plans C-F are all reliant on the shadow travel thing?"

"You have Noma looking into this right?" I cringed and cracked my neck to one side. My bad.

All of it...was my bad.

"Of course. But in the meantime I'm not very comfortable having half my team incapacitated like this."

"Are you saying we're only useful to you for our powers?" I joked weakly but tried not to sound too threatening about it. It was mainly my fault the revolution got targeted in the first place. Old friends of mine had tendencies never to rest in peace.

"No, but it is definitely a setback –" She was tired, more tired than she would admit to the team and much more tired than she would admit to me. All certainties were up in the air. Manpower. Loyalty. Assets. Alliances are only alliances as long as you can keep all parties happy. " –especially with the covens looking for trouble."

"Okay the flash bang had nothing to do with the covens. I may make dangerous friends, but you woman, make dangerous enemies." I bit my tongue with a lopsided smile.

Nix sighed through the speaker. "Fair enough, but you really need to talk to Cadence before this happens again. This is our city, Mya. This place belongs rightfully to the children of the dark gods and we have no room for this sort of light sourced power taking over our shadows."