Primal Inheritance: Freedom [COMPLETED]

Chapter 28: Elevator

Marissa

Whatever Shaye had done to us completely messed me up. I don't think I've ever felt that exhausted I'm my life. And the visions were equally terrible. All of those people were probably killed by Danielle. Even worse, she had become a vampire. She must have been trapped there, unable to escape.

That's probably why she was crying. But she should have tortured somebody to make her leave. Someone would have given in, surely.

"It doesn't matter if they would've given in, nobody in there knows how to get out." said Shaye. Somehow, he completely invaded my thoughts and spoke as if I said it out loud.
"How do you know?"

"Each person is only allowed to have a little information. Most of them know the same, but none of them know enough to get her out of there. They were sent down into the section she was in, but they have no way of getting back up.
To make it worse, they didn't know that either. They probably thought they'd be right back up, going to eat, or going to their families, and now..." Shaye sliced his hand across the air, symbolizing how Danielle was taking them all out one by one.

I looked at Allen. He appeared just as tired as I was, but he seemed more in shock because of Danielle. His chest was rising and falling heavily, but besides that, he stayed still.

"Allen, are you okay?" I asked him.
He looked back, stared directly in my eyes, and said nothing. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

"Shaye, the next time you do something like that, can you not make us so sleepy? I can barely stand up." said Donovan.

"I didn't do that deliberately," said Shaye. I'm nowhere near full power, so you guys ended up feeling almost exactly how I do."

Donovan leaned against a table, then slowly dropped to his knees. "You felt like this the whole time? How on earth did you make it this far?"

Shaye gave us a strained smile. "It's actually worse. I still feel like I'm going to vomit."

Allen, who was closest to Shaye, opened his eyes in surprise and scooted away from him.

"Look, I see what you guys mean. And it seems like that girl had already taken care of a bunch of vampires. But if they get her under control, if she starts fighting for them, I'm out. There were dozens of bodies in that vision, and we've already been massacred as it stands. With mages on their side, that might not take long."

"That's what I'm talking about!" Donovan slapped him on the back, hard. "We need your intelligence and strength. Jamie, explain it to him."

Jamie was so tired from the vision he was actually sleeping standing up.
"Wake up." Donovan intoned in our minds.
Jamie's head jerked up and he looked over at us. "What?"

"Tell him the situation." Donovan told him.
"Oh. Got it." Jamie stretched out and shook his head.
"We have discovered something. It seems like our power, our lycanthropy, is leaking out and affecting others."

Isaac's​ brow furrowed. He looked confused.
"What?"

I took a deep breath, and tried to explain it to him.
"Imagine this. It's full moon, but all the time, and everyone we come into contact with turns into a massive beast, like we scratched or bit them."

"And you didn't attack them?"
"No. Simply talking to them made it happen. Or it could have been a mesmer, because that's what Jamie used on the two he infected."