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But the weirdest part of all of this?
The brick along the edge of the frame, where the door sits inside the wall, iscrumbling.
It’s falling apart like whoever was here was using the crowbar like a pick in order to chisel away at the brick and mortar that’s been here since the sixties.
Before it was a recording studio, this place was a small local armory where a few soldiers and a tank stayed during the Vietnam war, but shortly after it ended, they relocated both and that’s why it’s built the way it is.
The door is purely an emergency exit so there’s no handle on it, and it’s set deeply into the wall so it can’t be pried open. And there aren’t any windows save a couple in the front and one on the side where the office is, so why this is where someone decided to break in is beyond me.
Just like thewhy.
Unless they wanted to steal all the radio and recording equipment, there’s no other reason to be here. And most of it is so old that it wouldn’t be worth anything anyway, so that reason is out too.
I slowly shake my head as I lift my gaze to look along the back wall, first to the right, then the left, then I take a few steps back and look up at the roof.
“What the hell are you doing?” Silas asks as he joins me.
“I don’t smell anything.”
He frowns. “Neither do I, now that you mention it.”
“But someone was definitely here.”
“No shit.”
Rolling my eyes, I walk backward to get a better look as I say, “And they couldn’t be human if we can’t smell them. Which means—”
“Oh, come on. Don’t start that shit again.”
“You know I’m right about this. The only one who could or would bother masking their scent so a vampire can’t smell it is—”
“Davina is nothere, Felix. She has no reason to be here.” Silas kicks at the crowbar, then starts looking for his smokes as he walks away. “There iszeroreason for it. None.”
“You don’t know that. She could be here.” I stare at the roof a little longer before I jog after him. “Davina might be bored enough to travel up here. You never know.”
“I do.”
“You can’t.”
Silas stops abruptly and pins me with dark, angry eyes as he pokes a finger in my chest. “She wouldn’t dare. I made it clear to her that she needs to leave you alone. Davina did her damage and now it’s done.”
Always looking out for me.
But something was definitely at Hellcat, and it definitely didn’t have a scent. Which means it intentionally covered it up so we wouldn’t know what it was, and since there are few very creatures who do that, I find it hard to believe it wasn’t one of us.
I start after Silas again, the male turning abruptly to lumber off.
Although, breaking in through the back is kind of strange. And it doesn’t really fit the MO of anyone I know from back home.
If Davina really was here and decided to come see me, she probably would have made some grand entrance through the front door or some shit, scaring me worse than Silas did for a number of reasons.
I look over my shoulder just before we get to the end of the sidewalk to take the right turn toward my place, and when I do, I swear I see movement up on the roof of the station.
Movement and a quick glimmer of something shiny.
It was brief and barely noticeable, but I did see something, and that just further proves that something otherworldly was trying to break in.
I keep staring even as I nearly trip over my own feet, but the longer I look, the less I see, and then I don't see anything out of the norm at all.
