"I got her to the location. I don't know what you want from me."
The young man with the black spectacles stood in the middle of the office and shrugged, the smile on his face easy and completely unbothered. He spread his hands slightly, like the answer was self-evident and the conversation could end here if everyone agreed to be reasonable about it.
The mission had been to kidnap Ember and deliver her to the safe house. He had done exactly that. He had also shaken a transcendent being who was actively hunting him mid-air while carrying dead weight across his back, and then disappeared into a city of over a million residences without being found. By any standard worth applying, the mission was a success. What happened after he completed his objective was not something that fell under his responsibility.
He had done his part.
"Sigh."
