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We shook on it and sat back in our seats.
“Have you heard from Elijah?”
She nodded. “Anna has him on the hunt for Razor Smile.”
“It won’t be long before Vlad and his brothers come back to hunt.”
“Yeah, but they won’t have a portal this time,” Bramble pointed out.
“I get the impression they have other modes of transport.”
“Mist and bats?”
“Yeah, creepy.”
I’d hoped to ask Elijah about Jasper’s problem, but now that he was gone…
“What’s bothering you?” Bramble asked.
“Jasper.”
“And that’s new?” She grinned.
“Ha, no. He’s been disappearing, and not of his own volition. He doesn’t know what’s happening or where he goes, and he has no control over it. I was going to ask Conah to help figure out what was happening, but he left to deal with urgent reaper stuff, and Elijah is working on tracking Razor Smile so…Yeah, I’m not sure what to do.”
Bramble gnawed on her bottom lip. “Jasper was held captive by an independent witch, right? A blood witch?”
“Yeah. Why?”
“Well, I’m thinking that maybe the best person to ask about malevolent spirits might be another blood witch. I mean, Jasper might be unique to us, but maybe he’s not unique to blood witches?”
“You think they all have malevolent spirits?”
She shrugged. “Even if Jasperisunique, the blood witch might have some insight as to how this other blood witch got hold of him, where he might have come from, and where he goes.”
“I’m sure Jasper would have looked into his origins.”
“Yeah?” Her brows flicked up. “Do you think he’d put himself in the vicinity of someone who might be able to capture him?”
He had done that once that I knew of, but then there could have been other variables at play I had no knowledge of. “I don’t know.”
“We should follow this line of investigation.” She grinned. “I mean, what else have we got to do, right?”
“I assume you know a blood witch.”
“Nope. But I know someone who might.”
Chapter Twenty-Four
Lauris drove us into town in the Rover. Tor hadn’t been too happy about the trip and he probably would have insisted on coming, but the wolves had their own patrols to consider. It was around the time of the month when the varga usually attacked, and they needed to be present.
This trip was necessary because Jasper still hadn’t materialized, no matter how much I called. Something was very wrong, and I needed to find a way to fix it. Maybe this blood witch that Lauris claimed to know would be able to help us.
Ursula still hadn’t called with an update on Sloane or with the go-ahead to pick up Wren, even though I’d left two messages. I considered jumping to Necro to check up on them, but after infiltrating Magiguard security once and putting Ursula in a difficult position, it would be a slap in the face to do it again, especially when she was going out of her way to help me.
My phone chose that moment to buzz.
“Hello?”
