NORI'S POV

I dart in, grab Milo, and get him out of there. I take him through the tunnels and into the razed city. I run for a while, speeding through the remnants of roads and over new plant growth growing in the cracks between concrete monoliths leaning drunkenly against each other. At the very edge of the city, I set Milo’s wasted body on a sturdy hunk of drywall, shaken out of a building.

Although I want to sit beside him, enjoy the very sight of him, I won’t do that. We ...