The Hunters: Moonsong Chapter Twenty-Eight

Of course reasonables upset, Alaric utter. This is her first real boyfriend. just the three of you vex been finished a circularise together. Shel put in back to you, and shel discover to you, once she gets a chance to cool down. His example was deep and loving, and Meredith squeezed her eyes keep out and held the telephone set more tightly to her ear, conceive of his grad-student apartwork forcet with the cozy brown be sick and the milk-crate bookshelves. She had never wished so hard that she was there.What if whatsoeverthing happens to her, though? Meredith say. I send wordt wait around for Bonnie to get over being macabre at me if shes in danger.Alaric made a thinking noise into the phone, and Meredith could picture his brow scrunching in that cute expression it did when he was analyzing a problem from different angles.Well, he said at determination, Bonnies been spending a lot of time with Zander, right? A lot of time alone? And shes been beautiful thus far. I think we can conclude that, blush if Zander is the one lavatory the attacks on campus, hes not planning to excruciation Bonnie.I think your reasoning is kind of specious there, Meredith said, feeling oddly soothe by his words nevertheless.Alaric gave a smal puff out of surprised laughter. Dont cal my bluff, he said. I have a reputation for being logical. Meredith hear the creak of Alarics desk chair on the early(a) end of the line and imagined him leaning back, phone tucked into his shoulder, hands behind his head. Im so sorry approximately Samantha, he said, voice sobering.Meredith nestled farther into her bed, pressing her demonstrate against the pil ow. I cant talk about it yet, she said, settlement her eyes. I just have to fancy out who kil ed her.I dont discern if this is going to be useful, Alaric said,but Ive been doing some research on the bill of Dalcrest. homogeneous the ghosts and weird mysteries around campus Elenas professor was lecture about in class?We ll, theres even more to the history of the col ege than he told them about, Alaric said. Meredith could hear him shuffling papers, probably flicking through the pages of one of his research notebooks. Dalcrest appears to be something of a paranormal hotspot. There have been incidents that go analogous vampire and werewolf attacks end-to-end its history, and this isnt the first time theres been a mountain chain of mysterious disappearances on campus.Real y? Meredith sat up. How can the col ege baffle open if people disappear al the time?Its not al the time, Alaric replied. The last major wave of disappearances was during the Second knowledge domain War.There was a lot of macrocosm mobility at the time, and, although the missing students left demented friends and family behind, the police assumed that the five-year-old men who disappeared had run off to enlist and the young women to marry soldiers or to work in munitions factories. The fact that the students never turned up a gain seems to have been disregarded, and the cases werent viewed as related. extremely work on the police departments part, Meredith said acidly.Theres a lot of weird mien on campus, too, Alaric said. Sororities in the seventies practicing dark magic, that kind of thing.Any of those sororities stil around? Meredith asked. non those specific ones, Alaric said, but its something to keep in mind. There might be something about the campus that makes people more likely to prove with the supernatural.And what is that? Meredith asked, flopping down on her back again. Whats your theory, prof?Well, its not my theory, Alaric said, but I put someone online who suggested that Dalcrest may be someplace with a huge concentration of crossroad ley lines, the same way that Fel s church is. This whole part of Virginia has a lot of supernatural power, but some part even more than others.Meredith frowned. Ley lines, the strong lines of male monarch running beneath the surface of the earth, sho ne like beacons to the supernatural existence.And some people theorize that, where there are ley lines, the barriers among our world and the Dark Dimensions are thinner, Alaric continued. Wincing, Meredith remembered the creatures she, Bonnie, and Elena had faced in the Dark Dimension. If they were able to cross over, to come to Dalcrest as the kitsune had come to Fel s Church, everyone was in danger.We dont have any proof of that, though, Alaric said reassuringly, hurrying to fil up the silence between them.Al we know is that Dalcrest has a history of supernatural activity. We dont even know for accredited if thats what were facing now.An image of Samanthas blank unfounded eyes fil ed Merediths mind. There had been a smear of blood across her expression below her right eye. The murder shot had been so gruesome, and Samantha had been kil ed so horrifical y.Meredith believed in her heart of hearts that Alarics theories must be correct there was no way Samantha had been murdere d by a homophile being.