"They know exactly what you are," a voice spoke from the shadows of the brownstone's kitchen. "They've been tracking light-bearers for three millennia."
Everyone whirled toward the sound. Atlas and Elise instantly summoned golden energy to their hands while Cassius raised his void-touched weapon.
A slight Chinese woman in her thirties stepped into the dim light, her posture relaxed despite the powers aimed at her. She wore simple dark clothing, her hair pulled back in a severe bun. Nothing about her suggested supernatural abilities, yet she'd bypassed their security without triggering a single alarm.
"How the hell did you get in here?" Cassius demanded, finger hovering over the trigger.
"The same way your father entered the Wudang archives in 1967." She smiled thinly. "With an invitati
