"Who's the bad guy? What did it do to me?" Nico hadn't stopped glaring, and she'd only stopped chewing on her cheek to speak. "And why should I trust you?"

It sounded ridiculous, but then so many other things in her life had become ridiculous since she'd followed Alex down that secret passage. Maybe this was some other weird sub-plane of existence, like where Chase had found the Gibborim the second time.