“Ghost…” She stopped, and I heard her throat click as she swallowed. “It’s… Rig is gone. Not dead,” she clarified quickly when my breath whooshed out of me in an awful rush. “He went—he went with Mary.” I struggled to process what she’d just said. “He… what?” “He went with Mary and her… pets. He said he wanted to try and help free them, and she was leaving because Aury was gone, and…” Anchor shrugged helplessly. “It wasn’t like I could hold him hostage. It was his choice.”
