"Self...destructed....?" Jacob stopped his fork halfway to his mouth. "You can....do that? Jesus christ, I'm still getting used to this whole Wanderer thing, and now we got people making themselves into living bombs?" When Jade mentioned that it was probably the same person who'd speared her, his face got a little pale. "So....these guys...they're that powerful? Fuck. I mean....that night in the warehouse was bad enough with two of them, but...they've got a fail-safe self-destruct switch now? This is crazy. No, this is so far beyond crazy I don't even know [i]what[/i] it is."

"And speaking of Carolyn, I don't remember seeing her. It's possible I completely blocked her out. It's also possible that I have no clue what happened after I teleported out of that hellish place. I was unconscious the second I hit my bed."