At Second Sight: Sentinels by Meg Allison

Author:Meg Allison [Allison, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

They climbed into Davu’s rented sedan, Nathan insisting that Samantha sit up front while he took the backseat. She wasn’t comfortable with the idea of him coming with them. There was still so much she hadn’t explained to him about the chosen, let alone the Sentinels and their council. Meeting the stuffed-shirts in charge of keeping order over the group of gifted warriors might not be the best introduction, particularly if they were going to discuss Catania in any depth.

Davu steered through Savannah traffic with the expertise of a taxi driver, albeit without some of the scary driving habits. She trusted his skill behind the wheel as much as any man’s, but he could get distracted. And he tended to have a heavy foot.

“I resent being included with the other ‘stuffed-shirts’,” he murmured as he apparently read her thoughts. She scowled at him but it merely had the effect of amusing him further. He glanced in the rearview mirror at their passenger. “Samantha has explained what being chosen means?”

“Somewhat, but I wouldn’t mind if you elaborated a bit. I’m a detail junkie.”

Davu chuckled, the rich, deep baritone somewhat soothing to her frayed nerves.

“Good,” he said. “Details can either make or break you,” he glanced at his mirrors and smoothly changed lanes.

“It is recorded that near the dawn of time, the sons of God took daughters of man as their wives,” he began, weaving the story as any master storyteller might. She almost expected to hear sound effects. “They conceived children, both sons and daughters, who were born possessing fantastic talents and abilities that were, let’s say, much beyond common human understanding.

“Each child was given a mission of sorts from birth—a task they had to fulfill. The overall goal of the chosen, however, was to protect their human cousins.”

“From what?”

Davu flicked another glance at the mirror. “Demons, for the most part. From themselves as well as others.”

She felt it then—the disbelief, the doubt. Unease.

“He thinks you’re crazy,” she thought. Davu only smiled and stopped for a red light.

“He believes,” he said aloud. “Deep inside, his spirit recognizes the truth of what I’m saying. It will take time for his conscious mind to catch up. It is unfortunate, but necessary.”

She blushed and glanced over her shoulder where Nathan watched them, his brow furrowed.

“Davu…” she cautioned, but he seemed not to care.

“No time for coddling,” the Sentinel told her. He looked at Nathan’s reflection then and stepped on the gas. “You do believe—part of you does. Normally, I wouldn’t push someone in your position with too many facts. But I think you know we have little time left to catch this killer before other women die. They may not be important to society, as a whole, but they don’t deserve the fate this monster is attempting to deal them. There will be a lot for you to accept in very short order, Nathan. I apologize, but there is no way to help it now.”

Silence.

“All right,” Nathan said after a moment. “Say I do buy into this story…this legend of yours.

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