“Here?There’s nothing out here.”Jason pumped the brakes and scanned the area.
“It’s here.I can feel it.”Nickelova stared at the field on the side of the road.A few trees grew in the expanse of space, but nothing dense enough to hide Alex.
“Why would he even be out here?”Silas said.None of this made sense.“Is Alex invisible?”
“I don’t know if he’s invisible,” Nickelova snapped.“You ordered me to bring you to Alex by tracking the power of the amulet.I feel the amulet here, and Alex would never go anywhere without it.That’s all I know.”
Silas called Grateful.
“It’s Polina, Silas.Grateful is, uh?—”
He balked at the sound of Polina’s voice.“You’ve got to be kidding me?—”
“At the hospital with Rick, giving birth,” Polina confirmed.
“We can’t turn back.Alex has Laina.”Silas exchanged a worried glance with Jason.
“Relax.I’m going to help you.I’m watching you in my mirror, and Logan is nearby.”
“Nickelova says Alex is here, but I see nothing.”
“I have a vision of you hugging Laina, but the image is fuzzy,” Polina said.“I think the dragon fae magic is interfering with my divination.”
“Well, there’s a whole lotta nothing out here.Unless Alex has made himself a cloak of invisibility,” Silas said.
“I can see it now.Laina is there, Silas.Somewhere.I’m sending Logan.”
“Not too close.I don’t want to alert Alex to our presence if he is here.”Silas ended the call and climbed from the van, opening the back door for Nickelova.“You lead the way.”
Nickelova hesitated for a moment, scanning the field.
Silas exchanged glances with Jason.
“It’s this way.”She strode toward two trees in the distance, Silas and Jason following close behind.
“Why do I feel like she’s not telling us everything?”Jason said.
“Because she’s a tyrannical killer who almost ate your fiancée.”
“Yep.That’s why.”
Nickelova stopped short of the area between the two trees.
“Why did you stop?Where’s Alex?”Silas demanded.
She raised one hand, a look of confusion on her face.
“Did you see that?”Jason asked.
“What?”
“The air near Nickelova’s hand kind of shimmered.I feel like I’ve seen this before.”Jason tipped his head to the side and squinted.
“I can feel it.”Nickelova stepped forward and extended her arm.Her hand perforated the misty afternoon light and disappeared to the elbow.
“Silas, stop her!”Logan yelled from behind him, where he’d just arrived.
Silas glimpsed his friend for only a moment, and then Nickelova’s hands clamped on his and Jason’s shoulders.
