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“Is it all a lie?” I whispered. “The prophecy. Logan, is it—”
“No.” His voice was thick. “No, Brianna. You just,” he struggled for words, and then decided, “it can’t be.” He stared into my eyes with a determination and trust I didn’t feel. “You are here to save us.”
My stomach dropped. Logan hadn’t seen my visions, hadn’t felt those images of Aern. The fire, pulsing through the city. The end of everyone.
I was here to save them, but from whom? Morgan was harmless now, a captive of the Division. The only other dragon was bound to my sister.
Logan’s hand wrapped around my other arm and he forced me to meet his gaze. “It’s just another clue, Brianna. One more hint from your mother. To save us.”
I tightened trembling fingers on the notebook. “Okay,” I answered. “One more clue.” I pressed my lips together, fighting hard to decide what this meant. Had she been leaving me clues? And if so, what else had Morgan discovered? The lock of hair, the notes, they couldn’t mean he was simply obsessed with her after she was gone. There had to be some reason he still believed. There had to be some reason he was meant to stay alive. “Do you know where he held her?” I asked.
Logan’s grip on my arms loosened. “Morgan?”
I nodded. “Council didn’t know he had her, right? So he must have been keeping her somewhere else.” Logan’s stare softened as he considered my question. “Somewhere he’d gone, probably alone. You and your men were watching him, right?”
The alarm in my expression was replaced by this new resolve, so Logan’s arms fell to his sides, one hand slipping into a jean pocket. “We did,” he answered. “Not officially, of course—”
I cut him off. “Then where? Where did he hide her?”
“Brianna, you don’t understand his schedule. A man like that, his life isn’t so easy to track.”
“Make a list,” I said. “It will be somewhere dark and cold. Two of the walls are reinforced metal. The doors are painted gray; some place industrial, I’m sure of it. Florescent lights, concrete floor, and she can hear him coming for a long while before he gets there, so it must be a big building. Open I think, aside from the room she’s in.”
Logan stared at me. “Brianna,” he tried to keep the concern from his features, “you can see her?”
I swallowed hard. I hadn’t meant to tell him that. My eyes trailed back to his. “Not now.”
Not since she’s dead.
There was a long silence before Logan wet his lips. “I’ll make some calls.”
