And like watching a light get shut off hers faded, completely into his body.
He stood and touched his chest.
No wound.
A trail of blood ran down his cheek, scarring the right side.
“There is only one reason a demon cries red, and this is why. Timber was the first demon to weep over a lost life.”
Timber fell to his knees and yelled out a gut wrenching scream. “WHY!”
And suddenly a man I didn’t recognize was at his side. He looked a lot like Cassius. His jet black hair was tied at the nape of his neck, his eyes white, he knelt next to Timber and whispered. “You have been raised for a time such as this.”
“Did you know?” Mason interrupted the scene by asking Cassius a question.
“I have not seen this past. My vision of the elves has always ended when Timber is revived.”
“What is this?” Mason asked in a humbled whisper.
Cassius exhaled slowly. “It seems, the past has finally invaded our future.”
The man next to Timber spoke again. “Protect her when no one else will… I command you. You will forget all of this until she awakens.”
“And if I fail?” Timber asked.
“Do. Not. Fail.” Each word was said so loudly, with such finality, that I had to cover my ears. The man disappeared into thin air.
And when Timber turned toward the rest of his followers, the ones still alive, the demons still crawling all over the mass of dead bodies, he did something incredible.
“Find the ones who still live. Save them all. Burn the rest. Tell no one of what you’ve seen here. We have a new master.”
They fell to their knees.
“Not me,” he whispered in a choked up voice.
“But soon… she will smell like life and death. She will reek of resurrection. She will be life itself. She is our… Hope.”
The vision ended.
I collapsed on the couch, covered head to toe in a cold, wet frost.
“Well, that didn’t go as planned.” Mason shook his hair wildly like a dog as pieces of icicles impaled themselves on the coffee table.
Cassius had a faraway look on his face.
Ethan ran into the room. “Did I just hear you right?”
Cassius nodded and turned to him. “We’ve been looking in the wrong place this entire time.”
All eyes fell to me.
I had a bad feeling.
“Bannik is not their true leader.” Cassius whispered. “She is.”
Alex.
ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT, THAT’S what this was. I hated tracking demons. It made my skin crawl like bugs were scurrying all over me, biting me, sucking me. Every look sent my way made me want to punch teeth out.