Page 25 of Polestar
But isn’t that why Antony left you in the first place?
Because you no longer operated like a sane person?
He died believing that.
“Agent Ortega?Are you alright?”Magnus’ voice was muffled in her current state.
Magnus.
“Ana?”His voice broke the spell.
She blinked.“Yes, I’m fine.”
She descended the stairs.It was several degrees colder below deck and growing colder the deeper she went.
The temperature change was both natural and supernatural.
“A few of the victims died down here,” she murmured, moving ever closer to the holding crate.
The GPSA team hadn’t found any digital trackers, documents, or maps left behind.The crew must have disposed of them into the ocean or taken them with them when they escaped.
Otherwise abandoned, the ship had drifted with its cargo.
It was that information that they needed.
The departure point and destination point.
Balance.Focus.Feel.
First, she had to document what she could register below decks.
She drew another deep breath and allowed her instinct to guide her.Moving along one corridor, she followed it until it opened up to the main hold and kept going until she stood before the steel containers.
In her mind’s eye, she could see all of them, victims and crewmen alike, in various states, dependent on what their strongest emotions were at the time they were in this place.
A suffocating jumble.Still, she opened herself up as wide as possible, flowing through it all untilsomethingtugged at her.
The energetic signature of shifters, not the signatures of the human cargo.
Focusing on those, she moved toward another area where rusty splotches stained the floor.
Pain.
She tensed as her protective barrier slammed into place, blocking everything out.
“Dammit!”
I need better control.
She drew a breath.Held it and tried again.
But all she could sense now, was the distinct polar bear shifter signature that she identified with Magnus now that she knew what he was.
“I need more space.Wait here,” she said, and moved away from him, crossing the stained floor to the other wall.
But it didn’t make any sense.The signature was stronger here, where it should have been weaker when she moved away from Magnus.
Save them.
