Summer dangled her legs over the edge of the fire escape and looked out over the city. Before Adeva had come into her life, she hadn’t paid as much attention to the buildings outside her flat. Now she kept a constant half-eye out, wondering if — or when — her adoptive sister would appear.

At some point, she mused, she needed to pin the girl down about what, exactly, she was doing out there, with all those guns and blades and blood.