Chapter 339
Surveillance was a little different finishing out this week. Mina kept going to classes as usual, starting to hint at her and making up to the people who needed to hear it. I kept going to classes and work and started to appear more like my normal self, leaving some of the broodiness at home.
Nickolas made it look like he was going on a business trip so he could spend time out in the field with Alyssa. He and Osiston were less than pleased with her and Mina’s stunt that could have jeopardized our mission and he is observing her tracking techniques.
Well, that’s what he told her anNay. If I was him and suspicious of the group we have been trying to track down for a year with literally no results. I would assume there is someone inside the operation helping to derail us and I would be spending time with each member of the team in a very close way so there is no way to hide. I don’t have any proof that that is what he is up to and I haven’t said anything to anyone about it. I am learning to watch and listen more than I talk.
It seems to be helping me make better decisions and respond better, although it makes me seem more quiet and reserved, I don’t care. Every single word that comes out of my mouth is calculated and serves a purpose. I should have seen what Mina was doing with my gift and stopped it. I got carried away in this lie that we are living. I can see how long term undercover agents could end up being double agents or switching sides. After a while you start to believe in the lie. I am not here to make real friends, I’m here to help stop a guy that, I am pretty sure, wants to kill my uncle and probably cousin and take over the whole kingdom before moving on to the next one.
Having Mina and I look unsupervised also serves the purpose that we are vulnerable and unprotected. We are back to full on bait mode. So it’s our job to get our scent everywhere, look like college students who just broke out of an overprotective cage iving it up while our chaperone is away. We don’t party, but we have been to every possible gathering, game and campus event since Nickolas’ departure.’ The one thing I haven’t done yet is go to a
Thursday run. I need to make up with Tyler and have him invite me as a peace offering, but Mina goes each week and reports back the same thing we saw the first time. The guys basically take turns doing their perimeter check.
She did catch a pattern though. Each guy goes out and back and then rotates clockwise to the next group, socializes until it’s his turn to patrol again. And there are so many of them that unless you really watched you probably wouldrfi catch on. She also found that they only patrol away from campus, not between the bonfire site and campus. So either they feel really safe in their bubble here or someone else is patrolling the same way elsewhere.
I take a different path each day on my solo run to the gym reporting back the different smells, and who has been where recently. I am learning to be a better tracker, especially with so many wolves mixed with humans as well as the overwhelming smells that can only be associated with a college campus. have discovered that there are some changes in the scents surrounding the campus.
To the southeast of us, about 2 blocks from the forest preserve land, all scents except those of humans stop and the same goes for north of the rec center that we met Tyler to run for the first time. The scent block seems to extend east into the forest that reaches towards the coastline, which is what we expected, but we have never noticed it until now and the fact that it is on campus has all of us worrled about girls being taken again.
The scent block is like an invisible fog that is stealthily creeping across the campus covering more and more each day like a suffocation. With my brand I don’t feel lustful emotions, but when I step into the scent block I feel a pull deep in the pit of my stomach. The pull doesn’t lead me anywhere.,,yet, but I have a feeling, like the pied piper, that pull will eventually have a direction. It’s like a slow haze or a tolerance build up that if you aren’t looking for it, you wouldn’t even notice it developing.