Take care of her for me.
Colton ends the link and goes back to fighting to save his people with one last commanding order.
“He wants us to go inside and disable the tone that’s making the wolves weak.” I relay to those around me who weren’t part of the pack link.
“Get these boys up, they’re coming with us. Move. We don’t have time to wait around.” Leyanne’s commanding voice comes at us from behind, startling me, and it’s only now I realize she wasn’t with us. She’s moving fast, followed by a high-flying stream of crows as she paces at us, her robes flapping in the speed of her own motion. I have no idea where she went but she’s good at doing the disappearing and reappear act.
“The manor?” I ask with uncertainty, and I’m caught by the wrist as she passes and tugged towards the house with hurried force. “What about Juan?” I yelp in fright with the sheer strength of her maneuver.
“He’s not important right now. The wolves are losing because of his damned weapon. We need to turn it off but leave the defense intact, so the vampires don’t use theirs. My magic can’t do a thing with technology.” She for once sounds ruffled and majorly annoyed. Dragging me from the center of my pack and with her towards the stairs. My guards seem momentarily shocked that she would haul their Luna this way and then scramble to follow while dragging our prisoners with them. Carmen doesn’t question but hops behind me, Sierra on her tail, and I can tell that like me, they are now uncertain and worried. It’s only a matter of time before the frequency affects us too and we don’t know how long that will take. Like a slow poison invading our systems.
“The control room for the cameras used to be on the ground floor near the sub common room.” Carmen flits to human form, pushing in front of us with speed as we get to the door of the manor and halts before she grabs the handle. The door isn’t boarded or blocked but she hesitates and holds up a palm behind her to stop us moving forward.
“What?” I blanche in irritation.
“Wolfsbane…can’t you smell it.” She leans in and around the door, her nose inching close, scrunching up her face in disgust and then moves to the handle with caution.
“Really?” I snort in amused disbelief. “He would swoop as low as tainting handles with wolfsbane. What’s wrong with him?”
“What’s right with him?” Carmen retorts with gritted teeth and moves aside to let the witch try the door. Wolves are harmed by wolfsbane even with the simplest touch. It’s one of the few poisons that merely grazing our skin can burn in the most agonizing way.
I flinch a glance at Radar from the corner of my eye and watch that proud wolf form tense slightly. His eye scar came from a combo of using a silver dagger and wolfsbane and I know it’s one of the few things in life that still makes him nervous. Even in the grimoire library we banned it from the house as it’s so potent against us we cannot be around it safely. It’s our Kryptonite and yet Juan has smeared his own front door with it. It sums him up entirely.
“I guess he never ventures out this way, or out at all.” Leyanne observes and one of our wolf prisoners let’s out a wry laugh.
“Why do for himself what he can make others do. Juan only takes the likes of us in, and we don’t come back out.” Taemin snarls and then slumps against Radar, who is still holding him tight as though he doesn’t even have the energy to hold himself up anymore. They have been exposed to the frequency and I’m worried about their usefulness and health if we take them further. Carmen seems to gaze into the distance for a second, her body stiffening, and I know she’s momentarily lost in memories of what was done to her in this house.
“Hmmm…. Seems he doesn’t care all too much about protecting the way in. This wolfbane is nothing more than a deterrent.” Leyanne shoves the heavy door open after a few taps on the lock and a spark of light, which I assume is some magical unlocking ability and swings the heavy wooden slab back into the once familiar hallway.
Inside it looks the same as when we left, only dark, dusty, and unused as though it’s sat dormant and empty for months. The air is stale, and the lights are all out, leaving an eeriness as Leyanne lights the way with the glow from her hand to cast some illumination. It’s too still, too empty. We know Juan and his minions are inside this manor, but it seems they care little about protecting the main door or leaving life down here.
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