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again, Xavier. How are
our plans coming?” she purred.
    “Everything is coming together
nicely. The Chicago base is almost completely set up. Are you keeping up your
end of the bargain?” he asked, unaffected by her tone.
    “Oh, of course I am. I wouldn’t
want to disappoint you. You have given me everything I could ever want. My only
desire is to please you,” she said with the same syrupy tone.
    “Excellent, then make sure
everything is set to bring in the other Seers. I expect you to be there and act
as my right hand. Do you understand?” Xavier’s tone brooked no opposition.
    “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere
else,” she said as she rubbed a blurred hand down his chest. He stood as still
as a statue. The look on his face spoke of tolerance without a trace of
pleasure. He did not enjoy her attentions, whoever she was.
    The figures disappeared into thin
air as I was ripped back to the present.
     
    **********
     
    “Izzy, what the hell? Are you okay?
What happened?” Molly’s barrage of questions was giving me a headache.
    “Slow down. Let me think for a
second, Molly,” I said, trying to get my stomach to settle. I would never get
used to the nausea the visions induced. Each time I was left unbalanced, as if
I was struck by a terrible case of vertigo.
    I sat with my head between my
knees, trying to make sense of what I had just seen. I couldn’t understand who
the woman was. If she were a Seer like me, then why would she willingly help
Xavier? What was she to him, other than his right hand? Why had he suffered her
attentions with only a bare trace of disgust? Xavier was not one to tolerate
anything. So whoever she was, she must be important. She must be powerful. I
pulled myself up.
    “We need to go, and now,” I said,
standing up and heading down the street. I didn’t wait to see if she followed.
I needed to see Kennan. I needed his help to make sense of what I had just seen.
Xavier was his brother, surely he would know what it all meant.
    “But what just happened? Izzy, wait
up!” Molly yelled as she sprinted toward me.
    “I will tell you when we get to the
house. I don’t have time.”
    I knew the events had to have
happened long ago, that the vision wasn’t something that could be stopped, but
it didn’t change the sense of urgency it had induced. I knew undoubtedly that
the meeting I had just witnessed was the first piece of a much larger puzzle.
Whatever was coming, whatever new, horrible thing we were about to face, it all
started with that woman. Whoever she was, she was the catalyst that had set
this newest nightmare into motion.
     
    **********
     
    By the time we reached the house
Molly was out of breath.
    “Jesus, woman, have you been
training for the Olympics or something?” she wheezed.
    “No, but I have been running with
Kennan. So, it is pretty much the same thing. You should start training,” I
said with a smirk.
    As soon as we got in the door,
Kennan folded me into his arms. He had a worried expression etched over his
brows.
    “What took you so long? I was about
to come and find you,” he said as he buried his face in my hair. I barely had
enough room to breathe.
    “I almost had to sit on him, Izzy.
Seriously, what did take you guys so long? You were gone for almost two hours,”
Ian said with a similar look of concern. I always forgot how long the visions
lasted.
    “Izzy had a vision,” Molly wheezed.
She was still having trouble catching her breath.
    “Are you okay, Molly?” Ian asked as
he moved towards her. He wore an expression so serious it made me want to
laugh. Whatever Ian might have done to Molly, I knew in that moment he cared
more deeply for her than she realized.
    “Fine, we need to train it seems.”
She plopped down on the floor with her knees bent trying to catch her breath.
    “The vision, what happened?” Kennan
asked with the same authoritative tone he had used in the cabin those many
months ago. His face had gone all serious Guardian again.
    “It