Chapter 3

• I rolled my eyes at him, “I know she doesn’t want to be found, but she has to be.” I looked back to Daxx, she would understand. “The man with the yellow eyes found her, so she’s not safe, but doesn’t know she’s not. We have to help her.”
• “You had a vision of a man with yellow eyes?” Daxx asked.
• “What? No. I saw him at the club talking to Alona.” I sighed, why were they making this so complicated? “Alona doesn’t know. When I saw her, before I actually seen her…” I looked back to the redhead man, “her own eyes were red.” I spun to Rafael, “like yours.”
• He frowned, “She’s from my side?” Raf looked at the redheaded man, an odd look on his face.
• Now they were getting it. “Yes, but she doesn’t know because she’s never been there.” I frowned, “I don’t think.” I was almost sure, but sometimes I missed things with so much to sort through. I stepped around his large body and went to grab my pack, digging in it for my notebook as I explained. “When I was looking for your lost brother,” I stopped and thought for a second, “no, maybe before that, then I saw her and she’s quite old…” I pulled out the notebook and dropped the bag. “I mean the cars were old when I saw her…” I flipped through the notebook, I know I’d written it down when it happened.
• “That woman with you tonight was not old, nor did she have red eyes. I would have sensed it if she were from our side.” The stiff man informed me.
• I stopped and examined him. There was something hard about him, not bad, but he was definitely not a soft-hearted person. “Maybe your radar is broken.” I tilted my head and studied him some more, or the space around him, more than his actual body. “And sometimes people are much older than they appear.” As he was.
• “Okay.” Daxx came over and lightly grasped my hands before I could open the book again. “Just give me a second.” She looked over to the man. “Victor, is it possible that someone got lost or trapped over here years ago?”
• He rubbed the back of his neck and stared at the floor for a moment. “I suppose it could happen.”
• “Before cellphones communicating was hard.” Rafael added. “It’s not like we could use landlines or telegraph.”
• Victor took a deep breath and then nodded slowly. “I can check the records and see…”
• I was happy they were listening and seemed to believe me, a rare thing in my life, but they still weren’t getting it. Did I tell them she’d never been anywhere but here? That she didn’t know she was like them? Or did I let them look for her their way? I hated decisions like this. A rainbow. Why is there a rainbow in my head? It didn’t last, so it couldn’t be important.
• “Can you tell us more?” Victor asked me, making me focus on him and not my own thoughts.
• I shook my head and then tapped the side of it with my finger. “This doesn’t come with instructions. Its more like movie clips, you know short YouTube videos.” I shrugged, “sometimes they are longer with sound, but that’s rare…” I stopped because his serious, but pretty green eyes locked on me, and made me feel like I’d just said something wrong. I thought back to what I’d just said, there couldn’t be anything wrong with it.
• He raised his hand slowly, it was a big hand, as far as hands go. “You actually see inside your head?” He glanced to Raf, then Daxx, “I thought, when we were talking, she was seeing,” he pointed to one of his eyes. Stiffening, he placed his hands on his hips and looked at me again.
• I felt like he was examining me under a microscope now. Not a good feeling at all. I’d never seen him, I didn’t like not knowing what was inside a stranger. I shook my head and tried to stay focused on what he was saying.
• “When she could see Marcus and his followers I thought that was her seeing, but it’s not, is it?” He snapped his head to look back to Rafael.
• “Right.” Raf replied, looking as confused as I felt.
• The space around him changed, it was murky, flashing between hot and cold so fast I couldn’t possibly understand what it meant.
• “I will search the records.” He strode across the room and out Daxx’s door before any of us could blink.
• “That was…” Daxx looked from me to Raf.
• He nodded. “Yeah, just a little on the strange side, but Victor can be abrupt like that.” He shrugged and then looked at me.