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“I’m not answering any more questions,” Cara said. “You’re trying to get more information out of me so you can figure out who it is.”
“Cara, we already know.”
“What? But you can’t use magic to find him. He’s a void, he’s immune. You said it yourself.”
Eric sighed. “We called your friends.”
She stared at him. “They wouldn’t tell you anything.”
“Why not? They don’t know that anything’s wrong. We asked a few innocent questions, and they answered.”
“What did you say?”
“Does it matter? We got his name.”
Cara glanced at her mother, and the coloured pins on the map started to make sense. “Who are you tracking?”
Her mother was focused on the spell, so her father answered.
“We can’t track him, but we can track everyone else. All the big players - here, in town, in the city, at the college. We need to find out if anyone is acting strange. The presence of a void will change everything. We’ve had relative peace for a long time, and the other groups keep to themselves.”
“Wait, at the college? Who’s at the college?”
He rubbed a hand over his face, and she could see how tired he was. “You didn’t think you were the only supernatural person at that school, did you?”
“I mean... I did. Until now.”
He raised an eyebrow, and she suddenly felt foolish.
“We tried to protect you from everything, but you got stuck in it anyway.”
You should have told me.
Cara took a deep breath and crossed the room to look at the map on the table. Yelling wouldn’t get her anywhere. “What do the colours mean? The pins. Red, green, blue, black.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Eric said. “Go back to your room. Rest for a while. You’ve had a big day.”
“Dad, tell me.”
He stayed silent, so she tried to figure it out herself. Their small town was on the map, and she could see the City of Edinburgh spreading across the rest of it. She found her parents’ house easily. Three green pins.
Green meant witch, then.
She scanned the map, noting the other families in their coven. Green was definitely for witches. There was a cluster of red pins on the western side of the city, near the airport, and a scattering of blue pins in the north. A handful of black pins were dotted around at seemingly random places.
“I can just do the tracking spells myself,” Cara said.
“Go ahead,” he said, calling her bluff.
Cara shrugged. “I will. You can’t stop me.”
“You can try, but even if you succeed, you can’t track people you haven’t met.”
“I’ll find a way.”
“I appreciate the effort, but there’s no point.”
Cara grabbed a glass of water, mostly so that she had something to do with her hands. “At least you didn’t tell anyone else.”
