Blood (Sequel of Redemption) [ON HOLD]

Chapter Four- Questions and Answers

Chapter Four- Questions and Answers

“I didn’t call you for backup to have you do that,” I groaned at Eve as the girl fell forward, right into my outstretched arms. She had expertly hit the girl on the temple, not hard enough to kill, but hard enough to incapacitate.

“Well, you just should’ve defined ‘backup’ then,” she said, smiling smugly as she eyed her victim.

“Where’s the car?” I asked irritably, throwing the girl over my shoulder.

Eve jerked her thumb toward the other end of the alley.

“It’s waiting. What do we have here?”

“Unidentified Other. Might be a new species we never heard of.” I sniffed the air. “Her blood smells one hundred percent human, though… Strange.”

“How d’you know she’s an Other-worlder then?” Eve asked dubiously, shooting me an uncertain look.

“She saw through my glamour,” I answered coldly. “Don’t you trust my judgement? I wouldn’t catch her if I wasn’t sure there was something off with her.”

“N-n-no! I mean yes, of course I trust you, Lucas.”  She spoke so fast that she stumbled over the words.

I brushed past her, the girl balanced on my shoulder, her unconscious body limp and almost weightless.

I heard hurried footsteps as Eve caught up with me.

“So we bring her in for interrogation?” she questioned.

“Yes.”

I paused just shy of the light that marked the passage form the deserted alley to the busy street, gathering the dark pulsing power that always surrounded me. I shaped it all around myself and the girl hanging limply over my shoulder, weaving a complicated illusion around us, that would confuse humans and Others alike. Eve had already left the darkness, and was standing next to our car, her waist-long blond hair swaying gently in the wind.

As I walked toward the car, the people around me paid me no attention, passing me by without a second glance.

Eve opened the back door for me, and I threw the girl’s body onto the backseat.

As Eve settled into the front passenger seat, I took the driver’s place, and programmed the location of the ORD quarters into the system. The engine purred softly, and I could feel the car raising a few inches above the ground, before it engaged into the traffic.

I turned back toward the girl, and grabbed her synth-leather messenger bag. I dropped it in Eve’s lap and turned on the car’s computer, logging into the ORD database.

“Check the contents,” I ordered.

Eve nodded and began rummaging through the contents of the bag.

“Nothing incriminating. Just make-up, a book-tablet…” she muttered.

I turned once again toward the girl, and grabbed her arm. Bingo. On a band on her wrist, there was her intercell. As I detached it swiftly, I noticed a tattoo on the inside of her wrist. It was of a rose, all black.  Detaching my gaze from the ink, I plugged the girl’s intercell into the car’s system. In less than a second, her profile appeared on my screen, a picture of her at the top.

General Information

Name: Saint-Laurent, Nina

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Origins: Born in District Three, French Province, Nice