" Look, girls," David said, carefully moving Flora's exploring hands away from him, "I can understand how you feel, but you're really giving me too mu...h credit. Basically all I did was have a house that was facing the right direction. It's purely an accident that I had a safe house or that I had electricity. For all any of you knew, I could have been killed on the road or buried in an avalanche." I don't think it's as simple as that," Ellen said, giving the other girls a chance to give her new. “Which makes me think something strange caused this, and the azlu showed up. They’re driven by instinct to weave web and strengthen the Gauntlet.”Jack shivered. The azlu, monster spiders, straight out of a horror movie. Ugh.“Azlu?”She nodded to Sándor. “Ancient creatures from my side of the tracks. Spirit, but not quite spirit. Look like spiders. They like to break into the physical world, turn a human into a host, and grow into a—”A giant claw snapped out from the tear, and slammed down into. ‘Oh, not at all. Is there something we can help you with?’ ‘Yeah, actually. I brought Cruiser here to see Shannon. He might have some information for her, ya know? About Viper.’ Diane paused, then reluctantly stood up. ‘This better be good. Shannon isn’t bad with her tongue once you get her a little motivated.’ I scrambled to my feet as well, wiping my cheeks self-consciously. Still naked, I looked for my bikini, then realized my modesty was wasted. Cruiser was wearing skin-tight leather pants. Here I am on my way to face my greatest fear,and I'm scared of the view out the window next to me. Maybe I only have so much braveness to goaround? It's silly really."Excuse me, can I get you some soda water? It'll settle your stomach if your feeling nervous." Even the stewardess can see how terrified I am despite the strong face I'm trying to put on.She's right, the soda does help my stomach, but of course the real problems are in my head. I can't help but to imagine all of these crazy.