Naomi and Cat stared at Jesse incredulously, “you think you can do it?” Again, they were in a shady part of town where nobody ever asked questions. It was early evening, far earlier than they normally operated but desperate times called for desperate measures. Jesse shook the drainpipe and huffed as pieces of the brick building shook down around them.
She brushed the pieces of rock off her arm, “I can do it.”
“What if it comes completely unattached?”
“Then tuck me up next to Torben. We can share a bed,” she laughed at Cat’s punch to the arm. “You punch like a girl.”
Arwen from her perch across the street on a rooftop chimed in, “If you start to fall Beta, I’ll shoot that canopy down and you can land softly in it.”
They looked to the rolled awning over the door of an old rental offic
