Guardian Seer: A Bridge and Sword Novel by Andrijeski JC
Author:Andrijeski, JC
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 19
Stalker
Revik stood in the middle of her bedroom.
He felt strange, being there.
He felt much stranger now, after what happened.
Heâd been in here before, so it really shouldnât be strange.
Heâd been here numerous times, really, starting back when she first got the place. Sheâd lived in the flat for a number of years now, dating back to her last few years of art school. Being there was part of his job, part of keeping her hidden and alive among the humans, part of having contingency plans and back up measures in place in case her life was ever truly threatened.
So yes, heâd been here before; of course he had.
He fought to view his being here purely as work, purely as an integral, functional part of his job. He fought against the other feeling, the voyeuristic feeling, the overly-invasive feeling, the perverted feeling, the lack of respect feeling. He told himself all of that was irrational.
She was at work.
He was at work too.
He needed to keep things simple, clean.
He had a line to her, a direct line, a strong one, since he was a lot closer to her physically than he usually was. He would know at once if anything changed on her end. He would know long before she got anywhere near her apartment.
He wouldnât scare her. Sheâd never know heâd been here at all.
He also had a part of his light casing and scanning the outside of the Victorian flat. No one would be able to sneak up on him, or harm her, not with him here.
But he still felt⦠uncomfortable.
Heâd come here for a reason, of course.
It wasnât a made-up reason, or even an excuse to do what he could feel some part of him compulsively wanting to do anyway, even if he didnât have a good reason. He hadnât just entered her personal space on a whim, or to satisfy some curiosity of his own. He didnât make it out to San Francisco often enough to be able to blow off checking certain safeguards heâd put in place.
The problem was, he could feel that wasnât all of it.
He could feel the more personal interest there, seething through his light.
He could feel it, and it made standing there, in her bedroom, a lot more uncomfortable than he remembered from times heâd stood there in the past.
He shoved the misgivings to the back of his mind.
He scolded himself. He told himself to fuck off.
He told himself to just ignore his fucking âknowing,â ignore what his light told him, his intuition, even his conscience, and just go through the damned list.
Using a small organic tool, he shone a bright light over one segment of wall, the same section the bedroom door hid while open. Within a few seconds, the lines of the compartment heâd built inside the plaster and wood glowed a faint blue.
Clicking over on the same hand-held, he fed the key sequence in by memory.
A low humming vibration rose, scarcely audible.
An organic door popped open in the segment of wall, just enough that Revik could see its outlines without the light.
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