Erin Quinn nestled in Paige Summers's arms, carefully rubbing her chest.
"Are you okay?"
Paige Summers's face was deathly pale, but she held her back straight. She wore a strange expression that the seven-year-old couldn't decipher.
Among Marcus Monroe's group, there was one other person besides Marcus whose thoughts she could never hear, no matter how she used her superpower—Paige Summers! 'So,' she could only guess, 'is something wrong with her body?'
Things were even worse than she imagined.
Paige Summers felt absolutely terrible.
Her body felt completely empty. Forget her superpower; she barely had any physical strength left. She felt like a sieve, so porous that a cool breeze sent a chill straight to her bones. She could clearly feel that all the energy within her Jade Pendant Mark had vanished. This was more than mere malice; it felt like the explosive, intense resentment of the dead.
'Was it... Caleb Yorke and his people? Or was this the Mark's punishment?'
