And so the story continues…
Day 60: She was certain with some effort she could find a way, but at the moment, opening the folder wasn’t important.
She was certain with some effort she could find a way, but at the moment, opening the folder wasn’t important. Anna knew what the document said. She just didn’t know if Marcus realized she was spying on him and decided to use that as a way to make her think the tracker was gone while it was still active.
‘And I don’t know how to figure that out either,’ Anna thought as she sipped her tea. As she thought about it, Anna was inclined to believe it wasn’t a ruse. Marcus would have no way of knowing when she looked in on him and when she would overhear him talking about the tracker. ‘But he could have an alarm that lets him know when someone is looking in on him.’
Anna didn’t know such a spell. ‘But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.’
She realized her mind was spinning in circles and decided that didn’t matter either. She was not going to be opening the envelope just in case, especially since she didn’t need the information it contained.
‘But I do need the other information.’
Since she still had time to wait before she could perform the scrying spell, Anna finished her tea and rinsed out her mug. She retrieved her travel pack and took out the bag she placed the information she took from the archives out of it. Slowly, Anna began to remove the items she took from the lost archives. As she took anything she thought might be even vaguely of use, there was a lot.
‘It looks like I have my own archives,’ Anna thought. The sight of all the books and maps and folios settled in piles around her apartment made her feel slightly nervous. While she took notes on her archival research, she always kept them well hidden and not out in the open like this. She was also to carefully obscure her research topics moving around the archives one document at a time and taking from different subjects so her search wasn’t obvious.
‘Right, I’ll sort them into categories and put everything I am not looking at for the moment back in the bag.’
She thought with a limited number of items out, she might be a little less nervous about the amount of information in her possession.
‘I will at least look like I only took one or two books out not entire shelves.’
Deciding that the dursa was the topic she needed to start with, Anna chose a book that she thought might be the most helpful and then started putting items back into the bag. When all but the one book was put away, Anna felt a sense of relief. ‘One book at a time,’ she thought. ‘That works for me.’
As she moved the bag back into the bedroom and out of her line of sight, Anna felt even better. ‘Too long hiding,’ she decided.
Checking the time, she also realized that more than an hour had passed and the room was now clear of the after effects of her scrying spell. Anna set the one book she planned to return to off to the side and began preparing another scrying spell. This one was focused on Christopher rather than Marcus.
As the water cleared and the images formed, Anna saw him relaxing in a café. It was the one where she met him after running into Marcus. He had a mug in his hands and was sipping slowly from it. His manner was lazy but his eyes were sharp and focused under their half mast lids. He looked casual but he was on high alert.
Anna felt her pulse speed up. ‘Why is he so focused?’ she wondered.
He may have been left to watch but after two weeks of no sightings he shouldn’t be as vigilant. There was no reason for it. Anna saw that he was watching a woman.
Ten til Midnight 