“No,” Jake said. “And I’ve already exhausted my most obvious leads. Genuinely, it as if their scent had just… vanished. It makes no sense.”
“You said the accomplice used homemade knock-out powder to stop the guards. Is there something they could have used similarly to hide their scent?”
“I don’t know,” Jake admitted. “I have the chemists working on it, but some of the methods here are archaic. Old magic, maybe.”
“Great,” I said sarcastically and pushed a hand through my hair. “How did it go at Ian’s?”
“Nothing,” Jake said. “And I went myself. I’ve been joining most of the search parties.”
Not to be outdone, I said, “I’ll join mine too. I trust them, but we need everyone on hand for this.”
“We can try to coordinate as we’ve been doing,” Jake said. “But I’m not sure how much good it wi
