Have a seat with me,” Caine said, hopping down from the wall. “How have you been, Taylor?”<br />“Life’s one big party,” she said.<br />He laughed appreciatively at her joke. “Things must be pretty bad for Edilio to send for me, huh?”<br />“Things are always pretty bad,” she said. “We’re at a new level of bad. I saw those bugs.”<br />Caine mustered all his sincerity. “I have to go and fight these creatures. But I don’t know much about them.”<br />Taylor told him what she knew. Caine felt some of his confidence drain away as she laid out the facts in gruesome detail and with complete conviction.<br />“Well, this should be fun,” Diana said dryly. “I’m so glad we came back.