John kept driving behind the others, cutting down the occasional harpy when they got too close. He heard his phone buzz with the arrival of a text and took one hand off the wheel to check it. "Hey you! :) How are ya?" the text read. It was from Alyssa. John had always had weird feelings about Alyssa. She was his best friend outside of the family, but lately he'd been thinking he might want her to be more than a friend. John's fingers flew across the keyboard on the screen typing, "I'm great. Just killing some harpies :)" John had told Alyssa about his job recently. He knew that Mathias would kill them both if he found out but he thought she needed to know.