The Hunters: Moonsong Chapter Twenty-Eight

Of course Bonnies upset, Alaric said. This is her first real boyfriend. But the ternary of you admit been through a forget me drug together. Shel come back to you, and shel comprehend to you, once she gets a chance to cool down. His voice was deep and loving, and Meredith squeezed her eyeball shut and held the ph angiotensin-converting enzyme more than tightly to her ear, picturing his grad-student apartment with the knowledgeable brown couch and the milk-crate bookshelves. She had never wished so hard that she was there.What if something happens to her, though? Meredith said. I cant wait around for Bonnie to get over being pale at me if shes in danger.Alaric made a calculateing noise into the phone, and Meredith could video recording his forehead scrunching in that cute mood it did when he was analyzing a enigma from different angles.Well, he said at last, Bonnies been spending a lot of time with Zander, ripe? A lot of time alone? And shes been exquisite thus far. I th ink we can conclude that, even if Zander is the one behind the attacks on campus, hes not planning to hurt Bonnie.I think your reasoning is sort of specious there, Meredith said, feeling oddly comforted by his words nevertheless.Alaric gave a smal huff of surprised laughter. Dont cal my bluff, he said. I have a reputation for being logical. Meredith heard the creak of Alarics desk chair on the other end of the line and imagined him leaning back, phone tucked into his shoulder, pass on behind his head. Im so sorry virtually Samantha, he said, voice sobering.Meredith hold close farther into her bed, pressing her face against the pil ow. I cant talk about it yet, she said, termination her eyes. I just have to figure out who kil ed her.I dont know if this is going to be useful, Alaric said,but Ive been doing some research on the history of Dalcrest.Like the ghosts and weird mysteries around campus Elenas professor was talking about in class?Well, theres even more to the history of t he 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. in that location have been incidents that sound like vampire and werewolf attacks throughout its history, and this isnt the first time theres been a string of gloomy disappearances on campus.Real y? Meredith sat up. How can the col ege bond open if people disappear al the time?Its not al the time, Alaric replied. The last major wave of disappearances was during the Second World War.There was a lot of population mobility at the time, and, although the missing students left worried friends and family behind, the police force assumed that the materialisation 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 move up again seems to have been disregarded, and the cases we rent viewed as related.Super work on the police departments part, Meredith said acidly.Theres a lot of weird behavior on campus, too, Alaric said. Sororities in the seventies practicing black magic, that kind of thing.Any of those sororities stil around? Meredith asked.not 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 experiment with the sorcerous.And what is that? Meredith asked, flopping down on her back again. Whats your theory, Professor?Well, its not my theory, Alaric said, but I found someone online who suggested that Dalcrest may be somewhere with a huge concentration of get throughover voter ley lines, the same way that Fel s Church is. This whole part of Virginia has a lot of supernatural power, but some parts even more than others.Meredith frowned. Ley lines, the strong lines of Power running beneath the surface of the earth, shone like beacons to the supernatural earth.A nd some people theorize that, where there are ley lines, the barriers between 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 either 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 certain(p) if thats what were facing now.An image of Samanthas blank dead eyes fil ed Merediths mind. There had been a smear of blood across her cheek below her right eye. The murder scene had been so gruesome, and Samantha had been kil ed so horrifical y.Meredith believed in her rawness of hearts that Alarics theories must be correct there was no way Samantha had been murdered by a human being.