Devil Do

Lucas clever as the devil and twice as pretty Lucas tore his gaze away from the Spark Bird at last as he listened to Adam and his charming and prickly words, the Ascended smiling crookedly and folding his arms across his chest. Did he do anything useful? Depended on Adam's preferences, he supposed. "The girl in there is right, and your optimism is misplaced, I'm afraid. If there was a way out of here I'd be on it," he informed him with a roll of his shoulders. "Your Akkarain and your Sainen and your horse... forget them. They're gone now. Whatever happened to you, you fell into this shit show like the rest of us, and there is no way back." Of that he sounded absolutely certain.