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But that brief second was enough time for her danger sense to actually go off.

It was only for a brief second before her mind started working again. “No!” the blonde woman gasped while staring at the spot where the cab had just been. Not simply ahead into traffic, but disappeared entirely. It all happened too quickly, and took the woman too much by surprise for her to activate the power that allowed her to create the time-stop bubble before the cab had disappeared. So if an action wouldn’t hurt them, it didn’t register to the danger sense. They worked off of what would actually hurt the person. That was sometimes the danger of mixing certain danger senses with other powers. And with her powers, that wouldn’t have been enough to really hurt her, even if she had been completely asleep. She had simply turned the car insubstantial around her so that Dare fell out. Which was clearly why the Seosten hadn’t directly attacked her. A fact that was driven home with the brutal, sudden murder of Josiah Carfried and ejection of Dare from the car.Įven though she had not been expecting any overt action like that, a direct attack still should have set off at least one of the danger sense powers that Dare had collected over the years. Either way, she wasn’t being subtle at all anymore. Either the Seosten knew that she had been exposed, or she didn’t care. She had been very subtle so far, and since she didn’t know that her cover was blown, there should have been no reason for her to expose herself with an open attack.Įxcept they were wrong. They needed to keep an eye out for other things, but the Seosten woman should have been relatively docile, particularly with Dare sitting practically right on top of her, and another Heretic directly in front of her. The fact was, Charmeine had no reason to make any overt moves that would reveal herself. Over time, however, she had forced herself to settle down somewhat. She wanted pretty much nothing more than to imprison ‘Columbus’ and use that spell to force that thing out of him. The thought of letting that creature continue to control any one of her students, let alone one of… In the weeks since they had discovered the truth about the Seosten that was possessing the boy, Virginia Dare had been almost constantly on edge.

Ready for the monster that was puppeting Columbus Porter to make her move.īut she had gotten complacent.