we do?” Sean asked.
“You must have something of Malcolm’s. Wolves carry the most scent, so I’m not being biased to any kind here. He’s a wolf, and the wolves are what the vamps are feeding on. We take the wolves out of the equation, they will weaken. Locate the area that Malcolm is at. I will teleport to him and come back with him.”
“This is a crazy plan.”
“It beats running, and when Lucas wakes up, it’s what he’s going to want to do. We’ve only got a short time to decide what to do. I don’t know when he’s going to wake up, and when he does, he may be able to walk in the sunlight. If not, we’re trapped here till nighttime where The Cure can find us, easily.” Sandra ran her fingers through her hair. “What do you want to do?”
“This is a plan,” Patricia said.
“If it doesn’t work, and Sandra ends up trapped in the metal cages, what then?”
“Then you’ve got to come and get me.”
“Fuck, Lucas is going to be pissed if we let this happen,” Sean said, pacing.
“What’s the issue?” Sandra asked.
“Sean and Lucas have been friends for a couple of hundred years. If he risks your life, he’s risking his friendship with his friend.”
She’d not even thought about it like that.
“I’ve got to do something,” Sandra said.
“Fight or die. It’s only one option.”
“Then let’s do it.”
Patricia pulled out a necklace from her pocket. “This belongs to Malcolm. I just need a map.”
When she went to go inside, Sandra grabbed her arm. “No. We can’t go inside. We can’t risk it.”
“Then let’s go to the shed just down there by the stream,” Patricia said.
“It’s by the boundary, Patricia. We go there, and you do magic, it can be tracked.”
“It’s worth the risk.”
Entering the large shed, Sandra groaned at the sight of the spiders and webs.
“I hate creepy crawlies.”
“They don’t bother me,” Patricia said, going to the far shelf. She grabbed a map of the world and spread it out over the table. “This could take a little time. Sean, keep an eye on the boundary. I’ve put an extra detail in. If vamps are close by, the boundary will shimmer blue sparks.”
Sean looked out of the window, holding his hands up to the glass.
“I hope you’re serious about this,” Patricia said.
“I am.”
Patricia nodded, closed her eyes, and started to chant words that Sandra didn’t understand. She watched the necklace circle over the wide map, going around and around.
Goosebumps erupted over her arms, as the chanting got louder, and the necklace spun faster. Stepping back, Sandra gasped as the necklace landed on a spot.
“They’re there,” Patricia said. “All of them. They’re there, waiting, and they’re all weak. There are loads of them.”
“We need to leave the boundary,” Sean said. “We can’t do this here. We’re at risk.”
“Let’s go then.”
They walked back toward the center of the grounds. “I just need to visualize what the inside looks like,” Sandra said.
“You don’t. Remember what Malcolm looked like. It will take you to him, and you can bring him back.”
Letting out a breath, Sandra stared at the two people. “If Lucas wakes up, just tell him where I am. He’ll come for me.”
Thinking about Malcolm, the last time she saw him, she put his face and body details in her mind, and blinked.
“Holy fuck!”
Opening her eyes, she turned around in the small cage and gasped. There on the floor was Malcolm.
“Sandra?”
“It’s me.”
He climbed off the floor, gasping, and that’s when she saw his body was covered in blood. His clothing torn from the bite marks of the vampires. “They don’t exactly feed cleanly.”
“What the fuck you talking to her for?”
She turned around, and Sandra gulped. There were easily over a thousand wolves trapped; men, women, and even children.
They were waiting for the children to grow up in order to feed on them. Sickness washed over her, and she wrapped