“What do you mean ‘my new friends? We both went and hung out with them and we both got invited to do it again.

Did you not have fun tonight?”

“I had fun, but it was very apparent that they wanted you, but that’s kind of how it always is. You seem to be everyone’s center of gravity.”

“What are you talking about”

“The most crazy thing is you honestly have no idea.” She takes a second at a stop sign to look at me and roll her eyes. “People naturally gravitate towards you. I have seen it at the castle and at the training compound and now here.

You don’t even have to try and it’s not something that you even do or say. You just give off a vibe that pulls people in like magnets. Even Janice, who clearly doesn’t like the extra competition, acknowledged your abilities tonight.

Mind you she did it when no one but me was listening, but she also didn’t give you a hard time after that either.”

“She didn’t do anything but ask about how we shift without tearing through our clothes. I hardly think that counts as acknowledgement.”

after that. That’s the acknowledgement. You were at the very least okay to be there in her eyes and that was

have a feeling Tyler might be

I need to work on, you caught so much from people’s mannerisms. It’s the social stuff I still just don’t get. I can smell physical trouble from a mile away, like literally, but you caught a whole social structure from a three sentence conversation.” I am in awe a

out how best to navigate it and get a whole team through it strategically all in your head. We all have our own talents, your problem is,

pull into the driveway,

William and Alyssa are all sitting around the kitchen table looking over

“What’s up?” I ask.

they never really went anywhere or

maybe they were doing their own perimeter check or patrol based on the spoke pattern

satellite imaging of the area

come across any weird scents or

confusing me since that seems to be the calling card for this rogue

of them to track a specific scent, but I did notice when they got to whatever invisible barrier they all stopped at the scents did stop. The only thing I could smell was the forest, no other living things, not even small creatures

are in

on Gentry’s route. Her coven is also on the search and they seem to be more willing to help now that one of their own is threatened so I might be able to get more information about what these guys might be using to mask the

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