Salas
For nearly two hours after Evelyn Ward left the castle, nothing happened.
That should have reassured me. Instead, it made the entire operation feel more fragile.
From an unmarked vehicle half a block from her townhouse, I watched lights come on behind the front windows while Brenner sat beside me with a tablet balanced against one knee. A second investigator, Tessa, covered the next street in another vehicle.
We had chosen people Evelyn would not recognize, and all three of us used discreet earpieces rather than the mind-link. We still did not know how far the restored ability could reach, and tonight was not the night to discover its limits by losing contact with each other.
Evelyn had left the castle at her normal time, taken her usual route home, stopped at the same market s
