Gabe the Geek, Veronica's analyst, waited in the car when Nev returned. He hadn't been happy when Nev deputized him. Veronica probably saw it differently. She had an inside man with the Visionary's controller, or so she hoped.
Nev removed the sunglasses he wore in public. Cover eyes and hands and Nev could pass for someone male and human-ish.
Gabe was too close. There was no way he could pretend Nev was anything human at all, so Gabe averted his eyes, keeping them glued to the screen in his lap.
"I won't eat you," Nev said.
Not now.
Nev wasn't the only one thinking it.
He started the Porsche, the engine purring like a tiger. He knew where Glass lived. The old man better be home.
Halfway there, things happened on Gabe's screen. The analyst asked quiet, but urgent questions, nodding with a frown when the person on other end was talking.
Earpieces made people look like lunatics talking to their invisible friends. Nev never wore them. He didn't have the ears for them.
"What?" Nev barked when the final silence was still going strong at a full minute.
"Someone killed a bear in a restaurant near Washington Square Park."
Nev glanced at the image appearing on Gabe's screen. A big shaggy form leaked fluids on to a tiled kitchen floor. It looked no more like a bear than Veronica's driver had looked like a man.
Nev cursed.
"Tell Veronica that kill is on her. She's the one who invited the bear clan to the hunt before she knew what we're hunting."
"What are we hunting?" Gabe asked.
How to explain the inexplicable to a techie?
"Seen Godzilla?" Nev said.
Gabe's eyes grew wide.
"Force-wise, the woman we're looking for holds that kind of magnitude," Nev said. "Seen Twister?" he continued. "You and me are the morons in the van chasing the tornado."
For the first time, Gabe looked him in eyes.
"My numbers don't agree, Mr. Craven. Since the attack on the Golden Gate there's been a change. The new energy pattern is holding steady."
Nev glared at him. "Explain."
"There are two tornadoes," said Gabe.
* * *
Nev told Gabe to stay in the car when he rolled into the basement garage of Glass' building. He parked in a handicap spot and hurried up the stairs.
Nev knocked hard on Glass' apartment door.
Four knocks, pause, two knocks.
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