Then Calder spun abruptly. “We need to go back inside,” he said. Evan blinked, confused. “Back home?” Calder nodded fiercely. “I left something in your apartment. Something we will need.” Evan hesitated, but Calder’s urgency tugged at him, demanding an obedience he didn’t fully understand.
Inside the apartment, Calder rushed to Evan’s bedroom closet and began tearing through boxes as if familiar with them. Evan stared, stunned. Calder had never been inside his home. Yet he searched with frantic purpose, muttering, “It has to be here. I hid it where they’d never check.”