Hunting night.

6.

"Calm down, Elisa. We're here now, aren't we?"

"You should have been faster, dammit!" The young woman led Danny and Eva inside the cabin as they talked. "He is not looking good and Anahí is starting to feel seriously worried. Are you sure she's the one? She doesn't look exactly special. If that idiot made a mistake again..."

"Cut the shit, Eli. I'm getting tired of your attitude towards Tara". Danny gave her a cold glance that startled Eva but Elisa didn't seem to care. "Franz accepted her, didn't he? That should be enough for you".

"That doesn't mean her thing can't give me the fucking creeps. And we shouldn't be talking about these things in front of a stranger, don't you think?"

They were all worried sick, for what Eva could see and once again the same question popped up into her mind. "Why?" The tension in the air was palpable and it didn't surprise her to see that even the couple near the fireplace looked extremely stressed. Something really bad had happened to them. They were like the animals in a Zoo reacting at the proximity of a storm or maybe a threat of some kind. And that only increased her own fear. She shouldn't be there, no. She should escape from that damn cabin before it was too late, and soon.

The brown haired man next to the fireplace was smoking but Elisa snatched the cigarette out of his fingers quickly and threw it to the fireplace with an annoying expression.

"Seriously?"

"Sorry". He flashed her a small smile and held Elisa by the waist intimately but for some reason, Eva was sure that he wasn't sorry at all.

"You know the rules, Cesar."

"I know, I know".

Next to them there was a young brunette woman standing shyly but the second she heard Danny's voice, her whole mood seemed to change.

"Ah, you're back!" she said cheerfully approaching them. When the mysterious woman gave Eva a big hug, Eva couldn't help but wondered if maybe she had slipped into a rabbit's hole at some point. Didn't she know how Danny had taken her to that place? Why was she being so friendly? They were her damn kidnappers after all.

"Hello, it's very nice to meet you", the woman greeted her with a smile. "You can call me Tara, I don't mind. How are you?"

"Uh, hmm..."

"I'm so sure that you'll be able to help him. I'm so very sure. The green eyed boy told me so, you know".

Danny noticed how Eva gave him a glance and he smiled casually as he explained:

"Sometimes Tara can see those who have left. One of them talked to her about you".

"The green eyed boy isn't a ghost, though". Tara explained patiently. "I don't know what he is, but he's not dead. He's just... lost".

"Ugh, who the heck cares" Elisa replied abruptly as she ran her fingers through her hair. "Stop rambling about your weird friends, dead or not and tell us if this woman can actually help, please".

"Of course, sorry."

"Is Anahí with him right now?" Danny held Eva by the arm again gently and led her towards a door before Elisa or the others could answer.

But Eva once again felt the tension in the air and the "whys" and "what's" filled her already preoccupied mind. What was that place? Who were they? Who was she supposed to help? She was curious though. That annoying feeling was also there and she hated it. They forced her to be there. They didn't deserve her damn help, did they...?

The door in front of them was opened and a pretty blonde woman came out wearing a white nurse uniform stained with red. Eva looked at the blood stains and felt a shiver ran her back. Someone had been hurt badly and it wasn't looking well by the nurse's expression.

"How is he...?" Danny asked.

Anahí sighed softly and stepped inside the room again without answering. A second later, both Danny and Eva finally followed her there too.