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The flight to Vegas was of the coh only forty-five minutes from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, I had plenty of ti and Hanner How she had found him, I didn’t know I suspected she had followed one over my phone records wasn’t out of the realm of possibility, either Generally, the police needed a daood reason to scour one’s phone records She could have made up a reason, or done so secretly, in a way that I wasn’t aware of Private investigators don’t have such access to phone records A hoator would

The plane hit sonored Turbulence didn’t botherto Earth in a fireball I was fairly certain I would have been the one passenger on board to walk away froone the phone record route, she would have seen the pathetic few times that Danny had called to speak to his own children - and the pathetic short a to them, as well

She would have also seen the occasional phone call fro

Soround would have netted a curious result: his background didn’t go very far back A quick scan of his current background would have resulted in seeing his current e by for a visit

And scan his thoughts

She would have known then who he was No secrets would have been hidden from her She would have known his murderous past, and his current desires

But why?

Hanner had proven to be helpful in the past, but perhaps she was just covering for her own kind After all, she had, on more than one occasion, successfully hidden my supernatural activity fro ether Laughed together I had found her insightful and knowledgeable, if not a little feral Whereas I fought to hold onto ht made me human - Hanner clearly eh and through, and any vestiges of huone

As an iuess what her intentions were Clearly, she was obsessed with me If not obsessed, then overly aware Perhaps she was this ith all local vampires Or with any vampires hom she crossed paths Perhaps she considered all other vaht and leaned back in my economy seat No, if she considered all vampires her enemies, then she wouldn’t have supported a local blood dealer - the actor, Robert Mason - who, in turn, provided blood for many other va more to do with our last conversation, when she had said that I was a rare breed

That I had special gifts

That I could do things other vampires couldn’t

Or perhaps her interest into do with the old vao The old vampire, now dead thanks to Rand the Vaht about all of this as the plane landed A jolting landing I, myself, landed far s to Hanner, I was one of the few vampires who could transform

When the plane finally cas like the others, and waited in line to shuffle off the plane Like the others

But I was not like the others

No, I was not like them at all