Griff’s frown is heavy as he shakes his head, “No, there isn’t. Obviously, if something begins to happen, then use magic, we can deal with everything else afterward. Keeping Neith safe is the priority.”
“Guys, I really don’t think that it’s that big of a deal,” I say, and they all look at me skeptically.
“None of us wants to take any risks when it comes to your safety,” Ransom says simply. He adds, “Where did you say the boats were?”
Griff strides down the shore for a few more meters and then stops. He mutters a few words, and then, to my utter surprise, a boathouse appears, a dock jutting out over the edge of the water. It looks as if it has always been there, and it probably has to be fair. I would imagine that there is just a glamour on it in order to make sure no one stumbles across it.
“Wait, if the island is hidden from view to all outsiders, how come we can see it out there?” Raiden suddenly asks.
“Because you’re with me, and the clan can always find their way home,” Griff explains simply.
“That’s pretty fucking cool,” Reed says as we head down the dock to the boathouse.
“Okay, so we should be able to get four in one boat and five in the other,” Van says as he looks at the two boats. “Reed, Griff, me, and Ransom on one boat with Neith, that way if something happens she’s got the best chance of escaping whatever it is, and there are still fliers in the other boat to help those who can’t fly if whatever happens spills over to affect that boat as well.”
“Agreed,” Coen says, although his eyes are rapidly moving over me, almost like he’s checking for injuries already.
I stay quiet, I know there’s no point in my pointing out again that it’s probably nothing. I’m not even entirely sure that it is a warning anymore. She could have been telling me anything about the water, it was the fact that she shouted that made me think that it was a warning,but quite honestly, it could have been the opposite. She could have been telling me that I need to go to the water for some reason.
She could have been telling me that I was going to have to cross this water in order to get to the clan lands. The truth is, I have no real way of knowing what she meant. The more that I think about it though the more I’m thinking that it wasn’t actually a warning.
I climb into the boat and settle down next to Evander, who holds my hand in his. I know that it’s more in case there's an incident and less because he wants to hold my gloved hand.
Even if I did tell the guys what I now suspected, they would still behave as cautiously as they already are, so it really wouldn’t change anything.
I sigh and bury my face further into my scarf as the wind whips harshly at my cheeks. I’m getting a bit twitchy. Needing to fight kind of twitchy. There has been a lot of emotionally charged stuff going on over the last few days. Dimitri being the main thing, and quite frankly, I need to turn it off for a little bit and kick some ass instead.
It will make me feel better.
Or I need to find some answers. That would probably help too. I want to find out what’s going on at the other house and whether or not Winston and the other spirit guides are okay. We haven’t heard anything from the Elders, which is stressing me out a little bit because they are a complete unknown, and I don’t like that. The unicorn thing. Where the fuck do I even start with that? And then there’s everything else. Casimir is still a problem, but is suspiciously quiet, and I really don’t fucking like it.
We always knew that Casimir was going to be a long game kind of thing, and that it wouldn’t be as easy as hunting him, killing him, andthen that’s it, problem solved. Unfortunately, he’s too smart for that and too well connected. He’s been on the run for decades ever since he started the fucking war in Trieneliea, and if they couldn’t capture and end him, then I’m not really sure how the fuck we’re going to be able to. We’re taking everything a step at a time, and I know that Ty has people on the lookout for any sign that Casimir is going to pop up again, but for the time being, it’s quiet.
It makes me nervous. I feel like it’s only quiet because he’s building up to something big, or I suppose he could be regrouping. We may not have been able to take him down, but we have been able to take several of the people who worked with him or for him down. We have Dimitri, which means HID doesn’t have a supernatural liaison anymore. We’re almost ready to take HID down, which, as of the last update from Ty, the takedown is going to leave HID rather sparse for a while. He said that he has it handled and that he had already informed the relevant and trusted humans in charge that there was going to be some slack that was going to need to be taken up.
Chapter Seventeen
Neith
To be honest, that whole conversation filled me with intrigue, and I desperately wanted to know who these people were. Especially since from the way that he said it, it sounded like it was someone who had far more power than anyone at HID, and Ty spoke of them pretty fondly too, which means that there’s a human in power who doesn’t share the usual hatred toward supernaturals.
However, my inquiries were shot down with a finality that told me I’m most likely never going to be privy to that knowledge. So I’ve let it go.
For now.
I’m insatiably curious, there will no doubt be a time when I circle back to that. Hopefully, the opportunity to investigate will conveniently appear, and then I can call it a happy accident.
Where was I?
Right, listing everything that we need to do, that’s what I was doing.
We have taken down the sales, which is a massive win for us, although The Owner has still escaped. That’s taken away Casimir’s easy access to supes to experiment on, and he knows we’re actively hunting him, so that’s made him more cautious.
I suppose we aren’t going to know anything for sure until he makes his next move. I am hoping that he takes a while to make another move. We have other things that we need to deal with, and I would like to have the time to deal with them properly.
The one chess piece that I wish we could move off the chessboard is Murray. We know that she helped Derek, which means that she was most likely helping other people as well, bad, assholey people, but we don’t know why. The fact that she could be being controlled by Casimir, especially since we know that there was a shared history there anyway, is concerning to say the least.
Murray is powerful, I mean, she has to be in order to be the leader of the witches and warlocks of her territory. It takes a hell of a lot of power to keep them in line, they have a reputation for not taking life very seriously, even when they should.
