Wanderer by Casey White

Author:Casey White [White, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781652884866
Published: 2020-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

I stared down at my bed.

Keira paced back and forth, her hair flying as she pawed through it. “I just- I just don’t get it.”

“Take your time,” I said slowly, still inspecting the chaos she’d dumped across the sheets. I’d known that we’d been through a lot of fights since all of this began. I’d known that we’d come across a lot of different relics.

The door to the half-sized safe tucked into my closet lay open, though, and our collection had been spread out before us. Face to face with the myriad artifacts, the sheer number of people we’d come up against was more than a little overwhelming.

“It doesn’t matter how long I take, Jon,” Keira snapped, stopping in her pacing long enough to scowl over at me. “It’s not like I can make my powers change by focusing hard enough.

“Well, I mean, Aedan said-”

“Are you really going to lecture me on what he taught us?” Keira said. The frustrated tone in her voice aside, a glimmer of a smile flashed across her face. “I’ve heard it all before. You get what you ask for. I know. It doesn’t help me.”

“So you’re not seeing anything when you look at them?” I said more slowly, kneeling down beside the bed. One of the relics lay in front of me - a pin, narrow and elegant and set with rubies. I couldn’t remember who we’d taken it from anymore, let alone what their power had been.

“I know they’re relics,” Keira said, leaning over to let her finger drag across the smooth-cut surface of the pin. “They’re glowing for all-get-out. But...beyond that, it’s all blurry. I can’t get more than a general concept.” Her eyes darkened further, glowering. “If that.”

“That’s weird,” I said, buying myself time while my thoughts whirled. Keira was our appraiser, the up-close-and-personal counter to Greyson and his long eyes. So we’d thought, anyway, and everything we’d done thus far had supported it.

Until now.

“What...what about everything else?” I said, racking my mind. “Like, can you still-”

“I can still do everything else,” Keira said, straightening. Her hand flew to her pocket. She slid a map free, unfolding it. The familiar outline of our state stared back up at me. “I can see us here,” she said, tapping her finger over Greenville. “Like little motes of light. That whole thing you do with reading people’s body language? Their movements?” She took a deep breath, letting her arms fall to her sides. For a single, horrifying moment, her eyes glowed brilliant blue against the dim light filling the room. “I can see that too,” she said. The light faded. She stumbled back. “And...and if I focus, sometimes, I can see-”

“That’s enough, Keira,” I said, grabbing hold of her as she swayed. “I get it.”

“I can still see Aedan, walking around the house,” she murmured, her words low and muted. “I can see both of us. Sitting on the couch. Outside practicing. Making dinner. I can see you too, and Kai, and Amber, and all the others.

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