The Red Mark
Dark hair, sharp eyes, jacket open; he’d been with me long enough to know when I was lying.
“You sure about that, boss?” he asked. “Symbol lights up, you touch it, you get branded. Doesn’t exactly scream ‘nothing’ to me.”
“Keep your eyes on the road,” I replied.
“I am.”
He wasn’t. Not entirely. None of us had expected the Mark to react like that. We’d seen sketches, blurry photos smuggled out by the undercover asset I’d planted in the sect months ago. Some cultists had symbols tattooed on them, carved into the walls, painted in blood.
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