WELL. HOW PERFECT.

It took us a while to decide our next course of action. We tossed around a few feeble ideas to track Robert and Victor, all of which we eventually shot down. Robert’s phone was a cell, and while the CIA could trace those kinds of things, we certainly couldn’t. Even if Robert’s address was listed in the phone book, I knew Victor wouldn’t have let them go back there. And while Adrian and Lissa could spot a spirit user’s aura, we could hardly go wandering aimlessly in a city and expect to find something.

No, we were out of luck with those two. There was nothing to...