Yun-Jin kept the tag pinched between two fingers and let the tray carry its own weight.
The six words sat there under the knot, small enough for a worker to miss and sharp enough to stop the room. They told them to leave the body under the stone.
Ty watched the black lip above the tray. The pale curve under it stayed visible through the gap. It looked like bone, but this place had used bone shapes before when it wanted him to reach.
"Nobody pulls anything until we know what Daemon protected from us," Ty said.
JJ looked at the old body in the case, then at the pale curve under the stone.
"I love having two body problems and only one working nerve left," she said.
"You still have more than one working nerve," Blue said. "Several of them are currently making poor comments."
"Those are load-bearing comments, and this bridge has become emotionally dependent on them."
