The screams of a prisoner rang out from somewhere in the woods. The corpses of the rest of the prisoners, as well as the guards, were sprawled across the ground. Morgana and Freya walked over to Elijah and Rebekah.
"Is this absolutely necessary?" Freya sighed.
"That depends," Rebekah replied. "Do you want us at our full strength or do you plan on rescuing Nik on your own?"
"Hate to break it to you, but death rattles are a bit distracting," Morgana said, deadpan. "We're trying to break a cloaking spell."
Elijah pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. "Kol, would you please?"
The screaming stopped.
"Thank you." He looked back at the girls. "You were saying?"
"Klaus is still in New Orleans, most likely somewhere underground," Freya said.
"But we can't get a read on exactly where unless we're in the city itself," Morgana finished.
Kol and Hayley joined them.
"Yeah, that's gonna be a problem," she said. "I have contacts in New Orleans. As you can imagine, the place is crawling with vampires, all of whom hate us. Whatever we do, we need to do it fast."
"Well, I wasn't planning on a pub crawl," Freya replied. "I don't want to stay any longer than we have to, but we need to go."
"Whoa, wait, wait," Kol interrupted. "We're not doing this today?"
"Hasn't Nik suffered enough?" Rebekah shot back.
"Yes. And I've died. Twice. I'm not about to give Marcel a shot at third. Now, I say we draw that muppet out of town. And when he's gone--"
"I have been away from my daughter long enough," Hayley cut him off. "If you're afraid..."
"It's called being sensible. Until Freya can make enough cure with her werewolf hostage, Marcel can basically chew through our bloody throats."
"You're welcome to stay here, Kol," Morgana snapped. "But we're getting Klaus today."
She spun on her heel and walked away.
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Morgana thought it was a miracle no one had destroyed the bell tower. She'd thought it would've been one of the first places to be ransacked and decimated after the compound. Regardless, it was full of dust and random sections of broken glass.
"This is where you absolutely had to do your locator spell?" Kol asked.
"Well, when I first moved to New Orleans, I primed this space," Freya explained, spreading out a map. "Marked it with my magic, made it mine."
"This dusty bell tower may be your own, but this is Marcel's city, and we're nothing but targets."
Grendel hissed at him.
"All the more reason to let them get to work," Hayley said. "The sooner we find Klaus, the sooner we get out of here."
"It won't take long," Morgana assured them.
Freya sliced her finger and let the blood drip on to the map.
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"Everyone's out," Josh called. "Place is yours."
The locator spell had shown Klaus hidden underground, just as they predicted. There was a tunnel with an entrance hidden in Rousseau's they would use to get to him. Nothing like holding Josh hostage to get it done.
