Page 13 of The Dragon With A Girl Tattoo
The poodle-skirt singer had a fabulous voice, one that had a quality I found hard to define.She sang a song about falling hard for a guy, and how he was blind to her.When she got to a lyric about wanting to shine a spotlight on her love, a brilliant flare lit her up.
“Whoa!”Aisling said, staring.
“That’s unusual,” Ysolde commented, taking a step forward and narrowing her eyes on the light that shone down from about twenty feet above the singer.“Do you guys see a source for the light?It just looks to me like it’s spawning from ...well, nothing.It definitely starts higher than the actual lights on the rigging.”
“That is odd,” Allie said slowly as we all watched.“I think Christian needs to see this....”
“Is it some sort of magic, do you think?”Aisling asked Ysolde.“A light spell?”
“If it is, I’ve never heard of it,” she answered, moving forward another step.
A flash of movement to the side had me glancing over to see Gabriel and the others heading our way at a fast pace, the kids herded in front of them.
“What’s wrong?”Drake asked as soon as he got close enough for us to hear over the music.“The Dark One said his mate is concerned about one of the musicians?”
“OK, that mind-talking thing is seriously cool,” I told Ysolde, who nodded.
“It would be so very handy.Baltic, do you see a source for that spotlight?”
The wyverns and vampires all turned to look at the stage.I watched Gabriel as he studied it, his normally placid expression filling with confusion.
“I couldn’t see a source,” I told him softly.
“That’s because it’s not there,” he answered just as quietly.
“Huh?”I asked.
“It’s a glamour,” Christian said with a nod toward the singer.
“Glamours can make spotlights appear out of nothing?”I moved forward to stand next to Gabriel.“I’ve never heard ...oh, wait, the illusion ones?”
“Yes,” Christian said, his eyes—almost as bright silver as Gabriel’s—narrowed on the four band members.The singer hit a high note just then that seemed to soar into the night sky, sending goose bumps down my arms and back as I was filled with a sense of longing and unrequited love.
Instantly, all the men froze.The kids, who were finishing up their cones, were alternately leaping around to the music and throwing glow sticks at one another.
“Is that—it can’t be,” Aisling said softly.“Not another one.”
“Get the children to safety,” Drake told her, immediately calling their twins to him.
“Siren?”Allie said, looking at her vampire in confusion.“What’s that?I mean, I know about the ones who sat in the water and lured sailors to their death, but—really?They’re singers?”
“Take the children inside,” Christian told her, his phone to his ear.“Set the security alarm as soon as you are inside.Do not allow anyone else in but us.”
“Right, in we go,” Aisling said, herding her kids along with Allie’s.
“Is she dangerous, do you think?”I asked Gabriel.Brom had immediately moved over to consult his mother and Baltic, holding Pixie by the hand.She looked as bewildered as the rest of us.
“I think Charity should see this,” Ysolde said, holding up her phone to film.
“Good idea,” I said, and pulled out my own phone, quickly texting Charity to video call me as soon as possible.
“You have history with this siren?”Christian demanded to know of the wyverns.“And you didn’t tell me she was in this area?”
“No, and no,” Gabriel said, obviously reticent to spill the history of Charity and the First Dragon.
My phone rang just as Allie and Aisling came back down the path at a near run, causing both Drake and Christian to bend almost identical stern looks upon them.
“You left the children?”Drake asked Aisling, clearly outraged, a curl of smoke emerging from his nose.
