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subway station. “You can’t control the bus driver’s mind to let us on for free because the passengers will see we didn’t pay.”
    “Yeah. I’ll just go down to th e subway station and ask the guy for a metro card. Be right back.”
    He runs down the stairs. I look at X. He looks at me. I force a smile. “Maybe the news got it wrong and no one was captured.”
    He shuts his eyes, then opens them. “I saw some League mates get captured.”
    I saw it, too. “Yeah.” My shoulders droop.
    “Not to mention what Kale saw in Freeze’s mind.”
    My shoulders droop more. “Yeah.”
    Kale’s head pops up from the station. The rest of his body follows as he climbs up the steps. He holds out the metro card. “They’re going to shut off the MTA soon. Buses and subways won’t run.” He scans the streets. “This might be the last bus.”
    Two other people join us at the bus stop. One is a middle-aged woman holding shopping bags. Her hand trembles and her eyebrows are knitted. The other is a man who stands tall like he’s readying himself to protect us, if needed.
    Kale’s got a sad and scared expression on his face. X keeps his gaze on the ground. I crack my knuckles, which make s loud popping noises.
    Quit it , Kale hisses.
    I drop my hands. Like X, I lower my head toward the ground.
    The bus pulls up to the curb and we climb on. The driver points his thumb toward the bac k, not bothering to make us pay. The bus is empty except for six others and us. We take seats all the way in the back. We don’t say a word to each other, just sit solemnly. X stares out the window. Kale seems to be scanning everyone’s thoughts. I play with my fingers, making sure not to accidentally twist or elongate them.
    Everyone’s conflicted , Kale says. No one knows what to believe.
    Does it matter? X grumbles. We were still attacked and we’re being hunted like criminals when all we’ve done is protect and watch over the humans.
    Let’s just focus on getting to the safe house and meet ing up with the others , Kale says.
    Ten minutes later, we climb off the bus and Kale leads us toward the house. As we inch closer, X stops suddenly. I crash into his back. Hard. Rubbing my head, I try to ease the pain. He’s as strong as a tree.
    “What is it?” Kale asks.
    X’s eyes are wider than bowling balls. He steps back, knocking into me and causing me to stumble.
    “Oh, crap,” Kale breathes, his eyes almost as wide as X’s.
    X grabs us by the corners of our shirts and hauls us behind a building. Covering his face, Kale slinks down the wall. He mutters stuff I can’t hear. X rams his fist into the wall, cursing under his breath.
    Sweat gathers on my forehead. “ G-guys. W-what’s going on?”
    Kale sends images from what X saw to me. I see a house, probably the safe house. It’s small, ordinary-looking. Tiny, compared to the League Tower. Guys dressed in armor swarm inside and outside. They’re taking people, but I can’t see who. The images stop, like X couldn’t handle seeing more.
    The military got to the safe house, too. We’re screwed.
    “Guys,” I squeak. “W-what do we do?”
    Kale’s shoulders quake. I don’t get it. How did they find the safe house?
    We don’t answer, because we can’t. X pulls Kale behind a dumpster. He does the same to me, except my legs decide to freeze in place. He only manages to pull the top half of my body.
    “Help,” I croak.
    X grabs my legs and gently shoves them behind the dumpster. They won’t return to m y body and lie folded on my lap. “Sorry for having such a screwed-up body.”
    X waves his hand.
    Kale’s quiet. Spaced out. I pat his shoulder. “Dude, you okay?”
    He blinks. “I’m trying to read their minds.” He nods toward those soldiers. “To find out who they captured and stuff.” He narrows his eyes, then swallows. “ We were right. Freeze was taken. So was Accelerator.”
    No! I don’t want to hear it. It can’t be true. I close my eyes and try to think of