His lack of acknowledgement wasn’t overly suspicious, but Hill did wonder why he hadn’t responded to her. Maybe he was too focused on watching the guards? Or maybe he wasn’t in the practice of confirming information. Whatever it was, he was right and there were two guards, one coming around the other side.

“What’s your plan?” she murmurs, her voice low and soft. By default it was now their plan, but she didn’t like to think about how little control that gave her over the situation.