Celeste had mentioned she thought the psychic witch had been looking for my brother. If her interpretation was correct, and Sabine did have a magical way to track Lyka, I didn’t want her to find Isla Lobo.
“Of course,” Piers replied, nodding. He paused, and for a moment, I thought he was going to spout yet another excuse for why he wasn’t the best one to find Sabine or look for missing vampires, or whatever his latest complaint involved. “Fenris, the meeting you’ve just held with the Order of the Stars…there are already murmurs in the world—in our world—about the fight that’s coming up. Now, normally, I would tell you that I’m a lover, not a fighter, but…” He looked so uncharacteristically serious that I forgot the smart remark I was about to fire off. “If you need something, Gilbert and
