[Oracle 02] • I See You (Oracle 2) by Doidge Meghan Ciana

Author:Doidge, Meghan Ciana [Doidge, Meghan Ciana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Romance
ISBN: 9781927850336
Goodreads: 27780228
Publisher: Smashwords
Published: 2015-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

We kept driving as the sun set, following the path the coin set out for us and circling back every time it cooled. The path took us from the university and along the highway, heading back to Southaven, which wasn’t surprising given that Byron seemed to be gunning for Cy. But we exited farther south than I remembered having turned off for Beau’s old house.

Following the main streets, we found ourselves in the midst of a pocket of shops within a residential area. The coin led us to the gray van, which was parked along with four other cars in a lot behind a brick building at the edge of the retail zone.

We circled the block, approaching the building from the front.

The neighborhood wasn’t scuzzy. Just older and beginning to get run-down. By the general age of the buildings, it might have been the neighborhood’s local commercial center at one point. But all that was left now were a few mom-and-pop shops, a couple of cafes, and what appeared to be an old bank in a brown brick building.

Yeah, the drug lord who’d kidnapped Beau had inexplicably parked his getaway van behind a bank.

The streetlights along the block flickered on to herald the evening as Blackwell pulled up across from the bank, parking in front of a closed used bookstore. Both sides of the streets were lined with parked cars; Blackwell had scored the last open spot. A few pedestrians wandered the sidewalks, but the cafes appeared to be the main draw this late in the evening. The sorcerer carefully checked the parking restrictions, but then he stopped me from exiting the sedan when I went for the door handle.

“Wait.”

“The coin is burning up. Beau is near.”

“The vehicle’s coated with a weak distraction spell, but opening the doors and getting out is too much of a disruption for it to fully cover,” Blackwell said. Then he nodded toward the brick building.

A couple of guys were loitering outside the front doors, but I didn’t recognize either of them from the university lab. A night deposit box had been cut into the brick at some point. I couldn’t see much of the building’s interior beyond the well-lit reception and waiting area, but the bank appeared to have been recently renovated into office space.

“Humans,” Blackwell said as he rolled down his window.

Despite the fact that it was now after dark, stifling heat swamped us like an electric blanket on overload.

“So?”

“So, Adepts don’t tangle with humans. Well … I won’t with you in tow.”

He fished his cellphone out of his pocket and snapped a couple of pictures of the bruisers. One of them was sipping from a huge soda cup. “That tattoo is distinctive.”

I squinted at the loitering muscle. They both had tattoos, but I couldn’t see anything distinctive about their ink. Maybe I needed my eyes checked. A nearsighted oracle. Now that was ironic.

Blackwell attached the pictures he’d taken to a text message he was about to send to some guy named Marshal. He showed me his screen, zooming in on the tattoo on the neck of the nondrinker.

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