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and I wanted the movement. The sun was a while from setting, but it was lower and less<br />
detrimental to vampires, so Christian didn't mind the walk either.<br />
And, as often happened when I was in calm settings, I felt a tug into Lissa's head. I let myself<br />
fall into her because I wanted to know what was happening back at the resort.<br />
"I know you want to protect them, but we need to know where they are."<br />
Lissa sat on the bed in our room while Dimitri and my mom stared her down. It was Dimitri<br />
who had spoken. Seeing him through her eyes was interesting. She had a fond respect for him,<br />
very different from the intense roller coaster of emotions I always experienced.<br />
"I told you," said Lissa, "I don't know. I don't know what happened."<br />
Frustration and fear for us burned through her. It saddened me to see her so anxious, but at the<br />
same time, I was glad I hadn't gotten her involved. She couldn't report what she didn't know.<br />
"I can't believe they wouldn't have told you where they were going," said my mother. Her<br />
words sounded flat, but there were lines of worry on her face. "Especially with your…bond."<br />
"It only works one way," said Lissa sadly. "You know that."<br />
Dimitri knelt down so he could be at Lissa's height and look her in the eye. He pretty much had<br />
to do that to look anyone in the eye. "Are you sure there's nothing? Nothing at all you can tell<br />
us? They're nowhere in town. The man at the bus station didn't see them … though we're pretty<br />
sure that's where they must have gone. We need something, anything to go on."<br />
Man at the bus station? That was another stroke of luck. The woman who'd sold us the tickets<br />
must have gone home. Her replacement wouldn't know us.<br />
Lissa gritted her teeth and glared. "Don't you think if I knew, I'd tell you? You don't think I'm<br />
worried about them too? I have no idea where they are. None. And why'd they even leave… it<br />
doesn't make any sense either. Especially why they'd go with Mia, of all people." A twinge of<br />
hurt flickered through the bond, hurt at being left out of whatever we were doing, no matter<br />
how wrong.
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