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Daniel scanned the contents, one brow lifting slowly. “What do you think, Lev?”
The other brother spoke up, though the lines obscured his face. Still, she heard him well enough. “There’s mention of the red hood on this one, which is why we believe the tip is solid. We’ve had at least twenty mentions of a weapon with a red hood and shiny black base. This has to be it.”
Before she’d fallen asleep, Marius had shared more bits of information about his world. In this case, Daniel had set up a tip line about the weapon just as Rumy had.
“So it looks like you’re going to Sweden. And Lev, I want you both to go.”
Lev smiled, as if he didn’t often get to go on missions like this one.
Through the difficult wavy lines she watched Daniel smile and clap first Quill’s shoulder, then Lev’s. These were the sons loyal to Daniel, dedicated to his ambitions. They were just a few years older than Marius and his brothers.
Shayna’s heart thumped. If this was her tracking ability at work, she felt encouraged that both Marius and Rumy were right and that she truly could help in this situation.
But as she stared at Daniel, he turned in what felt like her direction, his brow pinched, but he didn’t make eye contact so she knew he couldn’t actually see her. When he spoke, however, a jolt of fear went through her. At that exact same moment, Marius tightened his arm around her, perhaps sensing her disquiet.
“Are you there, Shayna? Is that you spying on me?” Daniel smiled. “And do I detect lovemaking? Have you already seduced my son? Clever girl. But I’ll be waiting for you.”
The waves in front of the vision grew more severe so that she saw less and less, and now her head hurt again. Was Daniel creating this interference or was the problem hers?
The fact that he must have sensed her presence caused her to pull away from the vision completely. She kept pulling until she felt the connection actually break.
How did Daniel know what she’d been doing? How had he been able to detect she was there? And yet Marius had already told her he was one of the most powerful vampires on the planet.
“Shayna, I can feel your distress. What is it? What happened? What did you see?”
She drew out of Marius’s arms to face him, holding his gaze. “Daniel. I just saw him in the vision, but he somehow knew I was there. I don’t think he could see me, but he could tell I was there. He even called me by name.” She didn’t reveal that somehow Daniel had known they’d been making love. It was just too creepy.
“Shit,” Marius murmured. “My father has tremendous power, more I think than anyone knows. Did he threaten you in any way?”
She shook her head. “Not really, but he said he was waiting for me. What did he mean by that?”
“Don’t pay any attention to that. My father is a master at manipulation and inciting fear.”
“But do you think he really knew I was there?”
“He seems to have some kind of sixth sense, maybe even his own ability to see the future, I’m not sure. So was that it? Was the vision just about Daniel?”
“No, in fact I think it’s good news.” She then related everything she’d seen and heard, first about the large space then about the final extinction weapon, and that Quill and Lev were there, ready to serve.
“They were the first of Daniel’s spawn and he broke them. This is good to know. My brothers are both powerful in their own right, so I’ll know what I’m up against.”
Marius dipped his chin, eyes squinted slightly. Shayna watched his gaze shift back and forth in quick flashes. She could almost see him formulate a strategy. When he was finished, his gaze snapped back to hers. “We need to start accessing the more mobile part of your tracking abilities, the part that can detect location. So what I want you to do is to focus on the weapon as it was described in the vision and on the location in Sweden. Can you do that?”
“I’ll try and we’ll see what happens.” She drew a deep breath and settled her shoulders, trying to relax while she did as Marius suggested.
She took a series of deep breaths, letting them out slowly. Images began to drift in her direction, of a snowy landscape and low light, of the geography of the Nordic lands. She felt as though she were already in motion and began flying at a fantastic speed toward a vast snowy outcrop. Then suddenly she flew through the snow in altered flight, landing in a vast cavern space half filled with what looked like a flow of water that had frozen solid.
Leaning up against the cavern wall, well away from the glacier-like ice, was a red piece of metal about four feet square. She glanced around. No one else was there.
But the image, so clear in her mind, started filling up with the dark, wavy lines once more, then finally winked out.
She drew back and stared at Marius. “I was there. I saw the red portion of the weapon.”
He nodded, smiling. “That’s it. Now let me gather my weapons.”
She’d almost forgotten. He’d probably be battling again, something she’d pressed way back into her recent memories. “Right.”
He moved across the room quickly. She was so caught up in the recent vision that she didn’t follow him. The chain vibrated softly, gave a slight tug, then the pressure ended as Marius reached his dresser.
