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"No," I moan. "Make it stop."
But it doesn't end so easily. Suddenly, I see myself running through the halls. There are searchlights. The smell of gasoline is everywhere.
Unbelievable fear.
When I wake, the car is pulled over on the side of the road. The sun has set, and a thick fog has rolled in around us. However, I can see that we're in an old neighborhood. Near us is a row of boarded up houses. Wherever we are doesn't inspire any of that goodness we were talking about earlier. I feel the same sense of dread I felt in my visions.
"What... happened?" I mutter.
"You went into a seizure," Raven says, tears draping her perfectly beautiful cheeks. The look in her eyes tells me this one was bad.
Can my visions kill me?
I try to stand, but Loki weighs a heavy hand across my chest. "Just chill, guy," he says.
"No, we need to keep moving," I grunt. "This place... it doesn't feel safe."
"Is anywhere safe anymore?" Heimdall asks.
It's a cynical question, but it's one that might be worth asking every now and then.
When the answer doesn't come, I take a few deep breaths and collect the energy I expelled. Not far off the street, toward the row of houses is a large building.
On the stone out front reads:
MUNICIPAL LIBRARY.
Underneath it is a large, metal sign:
TRESPASSERS WILL BE FINED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.
I roll away from Loki's grasp and stand, wiping the wet dirt away from my jeans. "That's it," I say.
"What?" Raven asks.
"That's the old building," I stutter.
"Ash you're not making sense. Please, just rest for a moment," she says.
"I don't need to rest, dammit," I argue. "I saw that building in a vision. We can't be here!"
My ears still ring with Raven's screams.
The urgency takes hold of my body, nearly causing me to seize up again. I stagger back, ass slamming against the car. I slide up the hood and take huge gulps of air. Still, it feels impossible to breathe.
"Ash, please!" Raven cries.
Loki flexes his muscles and grits his teeth like a bodyguard I never want to cross. "Okay, get the fuck down from the car. We're going inside," he says.
It takes both Heimdall and Loki to carry me all the way to the library. I scream, but my voice carries through desolate darkness. My feet drag across the stone walkway. And I know I look fucking insane again, but they don't know what I just felt. What I saw and heard.
Fear at the highest level.
It was like I was staring into the barrel of an assault rifle. No- it was much worse than that. In that terrible vision, Lucifer's army was even closer than expected. I couldn't see them, but I sure as hell felt them.
Lucifer wasn't involved in this revelation. It was something else...
They break the chains that lock the front open. Fling open the wooden doors, and I'm left voiceless and aching as they toss me onto the floor. The entire time, Raven is crying and begging them to let me go.
