"You're an animal," she snarled. "You've done nothing but destroy everyone around you."
"Me?" Coyote asked indignantly. "I'm not the animal." He glared at Ren. "He is."
Abigail pulled a knife from her boot. "Yeah, well, from where I call home, we put down rabid animals."
Snake entered the room at the same time Coyote ran.
All Abigail could see was her mother's killer getting away. Without a second thought, she threw her knife at his fleeing back.
One second he was there.
The next, he'd changed places with Snake, just like he'd done with Ren. Her knife buried itself straight into Snake's heart.
No!
Snake blanched as he looked down and saw the knife sticking out of his chest. His breathing labored, he gave her such a sad, pathetic look that it wrung her heart.
"I'm so sorry."
He said something in a language she didn't know, then sank to the floor.
Abigail ran to him with Jess one step behind her. "Don't die, Snake. We can help you." She looked at Jess. "Can't we?"
But it was too late. His eyes turned cloudy and his last breath left him.
Abigail covered her eyes as the horror of it ripped through her. "I thought the Guardians were immortal. How could I have killed another?"
"They don't die of natural causes." Only unnatural ones.
She ground her teeth in frustration.
Sasha brought Ren over to them. Ren collapsed on the floor and leaned against the wall. "It wasn't your fault, Abigail. Trust me. He killed me the same way. Coyote's a trickster. It's what he does."
Jess growled as his own need for vengeance overwhelmed him. "We'll find him."
Ren shook his head "No. You won't. Not for a while. Not until the Reset of the Time Untime. He'll be in hiding now. Plotting for a way to get his Butterfly back."
"I won't let him."
"I know, but it won't stop him from trying." Ren sank his hand in his pocket and pulled out a necklace. He handed it Abigail.
Her heart pounded as she saw the necklace Jess had given her mother on the day she died. "Where did you get this?"
"I ripped it off Coyote's neck while we were fighting. I thought you'd want it back."
She nodded as she clutched it to her chest. "Thank you."
"I would say no problem, but it really was." Ren let out a long breath and closed his eyes.
Jess cursed.
Abigail was almost too afraid to ask. "What?"
"It's dawn," he said in synch with Ren.
Jess sighed. "We missed the deadline for the offering."
Abigail groaned as she heard those dreaded words. "What do we do now?"