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Of course, they’d have relied on their powers.
I follow Hunter through a maze of corridors. We pass labs, and I catch sight of people laid out in beds with drips attached to them feeding blood bags.
“The vamps they intend to turn are down that corridor,” Hunter says. “I haven’t come across any super vamps yet.”
“You think they’re outside?”
He doesn’t respond. Instead, he presses a bloody card to the door we’ve stopped in front of. I feel the buzz of power coming from the room, and my body reacts to it like a nympho in a cock store.
There’s a beep, and we’re in.
It’s dark, or it would be if not for the glowing silver symbol etched into the ground. The air above it wavers and shimmers.
“Can you deactivate it?” he asks.
I’ve seen this symbol before. I’ve seen it in a vault under a fake store, and I know just what to do to shut it down.
“Yeah…yeah, I think I can.”
Chapter Thirty-Six
Fee
The building was a monolith of black stone. I couldn’t see any windows. If it had windows, they were hidden or shuttered. It was getting too dark to see, to be honest, and without my Loup ability, my eyesight wasn’t outlier sharp.
We crouched behind a rise, watching the building below, looking for signs of life. There was forestland all around it, and to get to it, we’d need to track through the woodland, but so far, aside from the three humans who’d accosted us on arrival, we hadn’t come across a single soul.
But this was it, the place linked to the super vamps and the missing humans. It had to be. Cora was in there somewhere, and so was Hunter.
I had to get them out.
Grayson crouched to my left and Uri to my right. Their presence was reassuring. We could do this, even without our superpowers. Crap my side ached. Had the bleeding stopped? I was too scared to check. I didn’t feel lightheaded. That was a good sign, right? Hard to know when I’d never been shot before.
“We’re going to head down,” Ponytail said – I really should find out her name. “You stay here until I give the signal.”
“What’s the signal?” Grayson asked.
She tapped the radio at her chest and then pointed to the one Grayson was carrying. “Listen for static.”
She slipped away with two other Magiguard, making for the trail to our left that led down into the woodland. The plan was to get to the edge of the forest and then scope from there. Maybe send in a unit.
“Ursula should be here by now,” Uri said.
“She’ll come.” Grayson sounded confident.
Me? Not so much. My radio with the tracker was busted. I doubt there’d been enough time for her to catch the signal, let alone lock onto this location. Why in the hell hadn’t she given Ponytail a tracker? Why me?
It didn’t matter. It was done.
We were on our own.
We could do this.
Long minutes passed, and then Grayson’s radio buzzed, and Ponytail’s voice came through.
“We’re clear, “she said.
And then the radio went dead.
