Free When Silver Moons Rise (Lost Immortals Saga #2) by KaSonndra Leigh Page B

against everything the Caduceans stand for.”
    “That won’t be me,” I say, feeling conflicted. Her green eyes turn back on me then.
    Scoffing a light laugh she says, “Keep telling yourself that. Eventually, you’ll start to believe it. Maybe, before it’s too late. But with you, I don’t see that happening.”
    “Thanks for feeling so confident about me,” I say.
    “Confidence is always in the beholder’s eye.” She takes another look at the compass in her hand, a worried look in her calm features. It’s the same kind of instrument Faris used to turn back time for me back when we fought together during the Costing Ceremony.
    “What is it?” I ask.
    Sighing, she tucks her lip and waits so long to answer that I start to think she’s not going to say anything. “This is a mer-compass, a demon slayer’s best friend. This is also how we know where our group mates are located. See the little tip? It’s green, Tobie’s color. The tip points west. Now, watch this.” She twists one of the three small knobs on the edge of the compass. The tip turns a bright red. “This is Faris’s shade. It’s pointing to the Northeast. The two of them are hundreds of miles apart.” Our gazes meet. It’s not hard to read what she won’t say. Our paths are taking us in two different directions.
    “I know my brother. He wouldn’t just leave and not contact us. He’s in some kind of trouble. I need to go after him. I’m sure you and chromo-fr—Jalen will be just fine without me.”
    “I understand. You know I do,” I say, thinking of Micah. This new information opens a door I knew I’d eventually find. But can I walk through it, though? “Desi, I need a favor.”
    Rolling her eyes, she says, “Man, oh my, Chela, you just don’t know when to quit. Gotta admire you for having guts, though.”
    “Just please listen. When we reach the borders of the first Dim City, I want you and Jalen…” I sigh because what I have to do bothers me more than any decision I’ve ever had to make. “I need for you to keep Jalen on the train with you. Take him with you to find Tobie.”
    Desi makes a light laugh and pokes at the fire pit. “Wait a minute. You convince me to come all the way out here. At risk of Nina skinning me alive, let me add. Now you want me to leave you all alone?”
    “I don’t want Jalen to get hurt again. I promised my brother I would bring him along. I held up my part of the bargain. But now, he…This is so hard. He needs to head West with you,” I say quickly.
    “You think I’ll be able to keep him from following you? Are you blind, or what? Have you seen the way he hovers over you?” She plops down and tosses aside the twig she was using to poke the fire. We both steal a glance at Jalen who is still preoccupied with his saber. “How will you even know where to go looking for Faris? Do you have a map that shows you how to get to the Ice Prison? You’re not exactly what I’d call the street smart type.”
    I swallow hard, because this question bothers me the most. “I have Faris to guide me. I can feel him that way. I’m not worried. I just know that Jalen can’t go where I’m headed, for some reason.” I don’t want to talk about the nightmare I had about my best friend, the one that I’m almost certain is a vision.
    “You can feel Faris? No way. What is it with you and guys? You’ve got the slayer wannabe over there thinking he’s ready to take on the Outcasts. Faris has gone off on some crazy man’s mission that’ll probably get him killed. All because he’s in love with you.” She says the last few words of the sentence in a sing-song kind of tone. “And then there’s…never mind.”
    “Go on. I can hear the words you won’t say.”
    The look she shoots at me rotates between disgust and awe. Sensing people’s emotions has become like second nature for me since I unlocked the power inside me. “Oh, so you can read minds, now?”
    “No. But you’re not hard to figure out.