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“We’re going to find him, Vahadr,” she says, and she sounds so sure of it that I almost believe her.
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As I step out of my carrier and stalk towards the X10 terminal with several bodyguards in tow, I almost immediately catch sight of Ana’s familiar silhouette. She stands with one of my guards by her side, wringing her hands and looking around. When she sees me, she immediately begins hurrying over.
“He isn’t here,” she says before she even comes to a stop. “We’ve checked all around. Classes run until seven, though, so the buildings are all still open. I’m thinking we try the visitor’s desk next; I’ve told him to go there if we ever get separated.”
I nod briskly. “Lead the way.”
My body is a coil of tension as we move. My gut is roiling, my heartbeat increased well beyond its usual resting rate, thumping heavily against my chest, and despite the threat of frost hanging over this gray afternoon, I feel a strong urge to throw my black trench coat to the floor and break into a run, for all the good it will do me.
Instead, I simply shove my hands into the pockets of my coat and fight not to increase my pace.
“We’re going to find him soon.” I feel a light weight on my forearm, and my gaze first turns down to Ana’s small hand resting against my sleeve before tracking up to her face. “He’s here, Vahadr. I can feel it.”
“You seem very sure,” I say, and I sound much more in control than I truly feel.
It helps, seeing how certain Ana is. Somehow, it settles some of the turmoil in my chest. She still has that effect on me, it seems.
“I am sure.”
As we round the corner of the large stone building, instead of her hand slipping away from me, her fingers instead tighten, and both of us freeze in our tracks.
Up ahead, a young silver-haired, white-skinned figure is talking to a female, pointing somewhere as if asking for directions, and I think that my heart simply stops beating.
“Asili?” Ana whispers beside me, and all I can do is take a breath.
“Asili!” She drops her bag to the floor and takes off across the grass at a run, and for a long moment, I just stare as my son turns from the person he talks to in surprise, and then stumbles forward to meet her.
