Ji-yeon slumped beside him, shadows pooling slowly around her feet. "I can't do another Shadow Gate for at least twenty-four hours."
"Noted."
"And when those four wake up, we're going to have to explain why they were on a boat, then rescued, then sedated, then carried to an abandoned facility in the mountains." She tilted her head back against the wall. "They're going to think we kidnapped them."
"Probably."
"You're very calm about this."
"I'm very tired." Yoo closed his eyes. "And calm is better than panicking, which accomplishes nothing except wasting energy we don't have."
Silence settled over the room broken only by seven people breathing in unconscious rhythm and the distant sound of Lee moving through other parts of the facility, and Yoo let himself rest for what felt like the first time in days even though it had only been hours since the factory escape.
