If Jude can see the residue, he might be able to follow the cultists before they attack again. Bodies are piling up, and who knows how many we’ve missed.
Bobby:
Did you see a door at Bowman’s?
I never went inside. Only stood in the doorway.
Kerry:
Is the door related to the tear, or the ritual? Or does it predate both?
Victor:
Good question. And how can they create a door that isn’t a tear? A portal?
Wade:
From beyond the Veil to anywhere in the mortal realm, maybe? Sounds like a nightmare.
Tiana:
Especially if he can pop out of nowhere and grab Jude.
Ivan shivered beside me, and I wondered if I could convince him to distract himself with video games or something. No reason the kid needed this kind of stress.
“We are already across the Veil,” Ivan said. “Can he create a door within the Veil?”
“The one on top of Cassidy’s building was on this side,” I said.
“And we fell through, landing on the other side,” Angel agreed.
“Which was soon pulled across the Veil, too. I wonder if it’s still there.” I added my spoken thoughts to the chat to catch everyone who wasn’t in the room with us up.
“But this is Xavier’s building,” Ivan said, though he nervously scanned the corners of the studio with his gaze as if worriedsomething would pop out any second. “He wouldn’t let anything through, right?”
“The building is pretty heavily warded,” Angel said. “And Xavier would sense it. He’s across the hall and up a floor but would be here fast if something happened.”
“Never thought I’d be happy to hear our creepy landlord has eyes on us,” I grumbled, and focused back on the chat to catch up.
Bobby:
Jude should walk Bowman’s apartment, look for the door, and anything else that might have been missed.
Ezra:
We are officially OFF the Bowman case. Hanna made that abundantly clear. Jude is benched until he’s trained or the military drags him off.
Angel:
Military can’t have him.
Tiana:
Hanna gave us boxes of classified cold case files. I’ve already been working on sorting and categorizing it. Lots of ritual murders, unexpected Veil tears, and missing people.
Bobby:
Share the data, and I’ll cross-reference locations of new tears with any cases Cassidy was working on.
