Timeless by Laura Legend

Author:Laura Legend [Legend, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T22:00:00+00:00

22

THEY PARKED DOWN the road from the site. Cass felt like she was enjoying a residual bump from exercising her powers in the vision. She hopped out of the car with a rare bounce in her step and retrieved her sword.

Thomas smiled.

“Good nap?” he asked.

“Yeah,” Cass said, trying to put together what she’d just seen in her vision with the man standing in front of her now. “Something like that.”

She’d seen Thomas in both visions. Once with Judas and once with her mother. The company he kept was not impressing her.

But both visions had, in the end, led her back to trusting him. For better or worse, Thomas seemed to be at the center of this web, tying all the threads together. She would have to see it through if she hoped to discover the pattern they ultimately formed.

Atlantis, for his part, was also ready to go. He gave himself a good shake, repuffed his deflated fur, and bolted ahead of them. He evidently knew where they were going and had his own plans to attend to.

Thomas led the way. As they neared the site, Cass was surprised to find that she recognized it. Though the surrounding area had changed dramatically, the rest of the compound remained surprisingly intact: Thomas had brought them to the site of the medieval lab where, in her first vision, Cass saw him laid out on a slab.

This was getting interesting.

They approached the main entrance first. The compound still consisted of a house and some scattered outbuildings, all encircled by a shoulder-high stone wall and abutting the rocky ridge that marked the rear boundary of the site. Cass felt sure that, eventually, Thomas was going to lead her down into those caves where Judas had set up his lab.

The “materials” they needed to cure her must be in there.

The house, though, was bustling with activity. The lights were on and death metal was blasting through the open windows. They hopped a wall and snuck around the side. Through a window they saw that the squatting tenants were a band of Lost vampires. Seven or eight of them lounged in the squalid living room. Empty beer bottles littered every surface. An old wooden table prominently displayed an enormous keg.

It might have been harder to tell for sure if they were vampires if some of them hadn’t shown clear signs of going feral. Or if the topic of conversation in the room hadn’t been the Heretic— how much they hated her and how glad they were to be out from under her thumb. To top it off, one of them wore a leather jacket that had “Renegade Lost Vampires” stitched across the back above the paired images of a rainbow and a unicorn.

That last part especially sealed the deal for Cass.

“They’re renegade Lost vampires,” Thomas whispered.

“Yeah, I picked up on that,” Cass replied.

She was ready to move on—they didn’t actually need to get into the house—when Atlantis showed up in the middle of the party.

“Shit,” Cass spat, clutching Thomas by the arm and pulling him back to the window.

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