Nothing about this mission sat right with me. I had spent the entire day wondering why they would be talking about a raid on a family that night. Unlike me, who had to work under the cover of dark to stay hidden, they could have done the raid at any time. Waiting only gave the opportunity for someone to leak the information and run. And I didn’t have access to their dreams during the day. Even at night, dreams were unreliable. Unless you were actively dreaming about something like the raid, there wasn’t much information to be gleaned from them. Still, as night settled across our town, I changed into the black outfit I wore to go on missions, pulling the hood up over my scarf-covered hair and headed out. It was only in the next town over, so I didn’t have to risk changing forms to get the

