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She quickly raised her time-traveling energy. In a flurry of focused intention, she slipped inside the continuum.
Only then did she pivot to face the wide, arched opening that led to the stone foyer.
Through the blurred walls of the time-path she saw the scarred vampire, Mastyr Leonus, with a woman that had to be Mitrana, the dark fae. They were frozen in time.
Mitrana was beautiful. She wore her red hair in a single very long braid down her back and was dressed in sleek black leather pants and a matching vest.
The dark fae were practitioners of poisons and all kinds of spells. In earth terms, she was a witch. That they’d appeared from nowhere meant Mitrana could use the time-path.
She tried reaching Vojalie telepathically to alert her to the intruders and call for help, but nothing returned.
The same with Devyn.
Her heart began to beat almost painfully in her chest when she realized she couldn’t reach anyone. She’d never been in more serious danger than in this moment. It was clear to her the dark fae was blocking even her ability to communicate.
She needed to understand what this couple knew and what they intended to do. She focused on Mitrana and the time-path carried her a few minutes into the past and to a subterranean dwelling. Intricate roots travelled the ceiling. Mitrana and Leonus were both there in what appeared to be a kind of cellar.
Mitrana ground several herbs together using mortar and pestle. “We’ll find Emily in her home. You’ll see. Then we’ll bring her back here and you can bond with her.” She gestured to a worktable scattered with herbs, roots and fungi. Beside a brew pot was a hypodermic filled with an amber liquid. Mitrana picked it up. “This will put her in a catatonic state. All is ready. Once near her home, I will be able to block all communication. The blood rose will be yours.”
“Then let’s go.”
Mitrana rested her pestle in the stone mortar, capped the syringe then slid it into her pants pocket. A moment later, she touched Mastyr Leonus and took him into the time-path.
Emily returned to her home, almost to the present, though still in the continuum. The couple was right there, in her foyer, frozen in time.
Mitrana’s words had sent a chill straight through Emily. So, she was right. This particular dark fae could time-path and she had the power to create some kind of shield to prevent Emily from using her telepathy.
Goddess help her.
Vojalie had said there were dark fae trying to make inroads in the continuum. But she’d never heard of any of them being able to do it.
Until now.
Suddenly, both the dark fae and Leonus disappeared. Emily had no doubt she’d slipped into the time-path and she knew she had to leave immediately. She might even need to keep moving until she could figure out what to do.
She focused on the stream behind her house.
Once there, on the north side, she stepped out of the continuum. She raced into the woods and hid behind the trunk of an old beech tree. Still acting on her instincts, she accessed the part of her that was vampire and fell to an invisible stillness.
She waited a full minute then she felt movement nearby. Her vision sharpened and she watched the dark fae as well as the vampire step from the time-path and onto the grass a few feet from where Emily had originally emerged.
Mitrana had tracked her.
Emily kept herself in her vampire state, watchful but to a large extent invisible to most realm-folk. She might not have fangs, but she could invoke stillness.
A few seconds later, the vampire saw her. “So there you are.” He chuckled. “Your ‘stillness’ skills are significant even though you are fae. But they won’t work on me.”
Again, she slipped into the time-path.
She didn’t know where to go but the destination didn’t matter. She just had to leave and hope this pair wouldn’t catch up with her before she could get help.
This time, she travelled to the top of a mountain near her friend Holly’s home. As by the stream, she moved to the edge of the forest and waited. It was such a great distance, maybe this pair wouldn’t be able to find her.
Even so, she began to plot the destination of her next time-path.
Her heart beat so hard in her chest, she could barely breathe.
A minute passed, then two. As expected, the pair eventually stepped from the time-path. Leonus lifted his nose, sniffing the air. He immediately turned in Emily’s direction.
