Chapter 265

There was a chair directly in front of the frail Vampire woman. I figured the Guardians had put that there for me. The quarters were so cramped, I had to straddle her boots to sit down, but she didn’t budge, only watched me sit across from her.

I realized now that I’d seen the same visions again, all in a rush, when she’d contacted me in the tree. Sitting there across from her now, more images flashed into my mind. I saw more of her Resurrection, the life she’d lived since that night so long ago, and then I caught flickers of the destruction she was certain was to come. I saw the portal, saw a shape exiting into a sandy desert landscape, but I couldn’t tell who or what it was. I took a deep breath and tried to relax, waiting for Mina to speak as I fought to put the images out of the forefront of my mind. I wondered still what she could see when she reached into my head.

“You are pretty, beautiful, just like her,” Mina said. She