Ash’s POV

“And you’re sure there’s no way out of this?” The ceiling above me was a mosaicked portraiture of the creation myth from the pre-purge. “I can’t just say it to you right here in the house of the Goddess and call it a day?”

Suzy’s face shifted into view, the curtain of her long hair dangling over my face and blocking out anything that wasn’t her. A few months ago, this would have been my idea of heaven. Just Suzy Sykes ...