“Nope,” Vince replied easily.
Wyatt pinched his nose. “Then how does he have a new affinity?”
“He doesn’t,” Vince said. “I already told you. Affinities evolve.”
None of us responded to that.
We fell into silence for several minutes, and I could tell Aiden was going to freak out as soon as we left.
Iwas going to freak out as soon as we left.
If the attack at the parade wasn’t random…
I didn’t know what to think. If they were there for an affinate that wasn’t me, who would it’ve been?
Zephyr? Levi?
We’d assumed they were after me, but the other two had been around me the whole time. Maybe the Sensors had been confused.
I want to leave,I told Rafe.
“Well, this was quite enlightening,” Rafe said, not missing a beat. He stood, offering me a hand, then smoothly stuffed his hands into his pockets when I ignored it. “Thanks for the info, Vince-o.”
Vince scowled.
“You got what you needed, we got we needed, we’re all set.” Rafe continued, gesturing for me to walk past him toward the door, whereWyatt was already waiting. Zephyr glared hard at him as he reached for the door, then paused as Vince spoke again.
“Arias,” he said.
Zephyr and I turned slowly, a little robotically, to face him.
“You’re a rare pair,” he said. “There are people out there that collect rarities. Be aware of your surroundings.”
The hair on the back of my neck stood on end.
“Got it,” Zephyr said sarcastically, though there wasn’t much heat behind it.
“Special Sensor advice, how lovely.” Rafe said.
“Princeling?” he said after another beat of silence when we’d tried to leave again. I turned along with Rafe, curious to see what else the old man had to say.
“Yes?” Rafe replied with a sigh.
“You want to be different, so be different.” Vince said. Rafe went still, so still it seemed unnatural. “Break the cycle of your forefathers.”
“This is some more of that special Sensor advice?” Wyatt asked, his tone hard.
“I didn’t know Sensors had time to specialize in such things,” Rafe said lightly, earning a snort from Zephyr and a huff from Aiden.
“We don’t,” Shafer said. “Some of us spend our never-ending lives sensing and tracking, alone in a dungeon, waiting on a king to save us.”
Rafe didn’t speak the rest of the afternoon.
Chapter 24
Skye
“I don’t wantyou going back there.”
