Chapter 15
The second floor of the building was dark and quiet. Ciaran scanned the area with his ordinary human eyes. He saw nothing unusual. He didn’t have Madeline with him, and her psychic ability wasn’t working anyway. His instincts told him to go back downstairs as he was at too much of a disadvantage in this darkness unless he switched on his eudqi.
The image of Diana dead in his arms washed over him like a tidal wave.
She had been the last advocate for peace, the last hope he hung on to. Whenever his wild, violent instinct hit him, he thought about her. That kept him calm and collected. It helped him think about the multiverse and the human race in a more positive light. The thought of her made him feel there was still hope for peaceful solutions in the Cosmos.
He had avoided ma
