04-05-2019, 02:11 PM
Amengual…
Jensen tasted the name on his lips silently as though afraid to utter it aloud. Both ladies searched him for an answer like desperate sailors searching for shore. While the formation of a plan began to coalesce, he wasn’t entirely comfortable with how to actually enforce it. Where to even find the guard? Surely he wasn’t still..? He shook the thought aside. Then what? Ask the man point-blank where to find Jay? If he was implicit in the whole ordeal, it was unlikely he would answer willingly. What were they to do then? Threaten? Channel? Even if Jensen knew how to threaten someone with the Gift, he couldn’t do something like that. Jay himself was the greater channeler than any of them combined, yet he was overpowered. Possibly by another channeler, or if Natalie’s prediction was accurate, with medication. The custody sedated channelers? It sounded far-fetched, and a wall of defense stacked internally when Natalie implied Ascendancy’s role that pulled a frown to his lips. It wasn’t in his nature to blame others. This was on their shoulders alone. The only innocent figure in all of this was presently sitting on a bed frightened out of her mind.
And Jessika.. Maybe Jay, a stranger, was someone she could sacrifice, but an innocent child? Gabriel and Malachi were not here, though. Jessika knew danger swept in and out of here like winds coursing the passageways. She couldn’t possibly– ?
They were both looking to him for answers, though it killed him to arrive empty-handed, he had to arrive at a decision. “Here’s what we do. One of the two of us will stay with Cayli at all times, even while we’re on the property. At the end of the day, this is the governor’s household. No army is going to descend on the house because it would attract too much attention. We are probably safer staying here, knowing where the danger lies, than out in the unknown never knowing who to trust. At least here, we know who not to trust. It will keep the Carpenters calmer in the meantime. We also have access to resources that we wouldn’t otherwise have…” Jensen imagined the governor’s office, and if Jessika thought anything was remiss with him, she’d spy their every move. “It’s best to stay normal as possible.”
“Get yourself a shower and collect your thoughts, both of you, then go eat breakfast. I will find out where this Axel fellow is at in the meantime. Either all three of us confront him together, or just you or I do it on our own. What do you think? Is there anyone else you can recruit to help us? I’m afraid I burned all my bridges years ago…”
He turned to leave, eyes falling to Natalie. So much responsibility fell to her shoulders. If she allowed it, he could at least restore her energy and focus. It would take next to no strength, but he'd not push. He did speak softly, though, to her decline, "My offer remains. It is as easy as breathing for me. Think nothing of it, at least I can do something. I have my own life to redeem, too," he said, smiling reverently.
Jensen tasted the name on his lips silently as though afraid to utter it aloud. Both ladies searched him for an answer like desperate sailors searching for shore. While the formation of a plan began to coalesce, he wasn’t entirely comfortable with how to actually enforce it. Where to even find the guard? Surely he wasn’t still..? He shook the thought aside. Then what? Ask the man point-blank where to find Jay? If he was implicit in the whole ordeal, it was unlikely he would answer willingly. What were they to do then? Threaten? Channel? Even if Jensen knew how to threaten someone with the Gift, he couldn’t do something like that. Jay himself was the greater channeler than any of them combined, yet he was overpowered. Possibly by another channeler, or if Natalie’s prediction was accurate, with medication. The custody sedated channelers? It sounded far-fetched, and a wall of defense stacked internally when Natalie implied Ascendancy’s role that pulled a frown to his lips. It wasn’t in his nature to blame others. This was on their shoulders alone. The only innocent figure in all of this was presently sitting on a bed frightened out of her mind.
And Jessika.. Maybe Jay, a stranger, was someone she could sacrifice, but an innocent child? Gabriel and Malachi were not here, though. Jessika knew danger swept in and out of here like winds coursing the passageways. She couldn’t possibly– ?
They were both looking to him for answers, though it killed him to arrive empty-handed, he had to arrive at a decision. “Here’s what we do. One of the two of us will stay with Cayli at all times, even while we’re on the property. At the end of the day, this is the governor’s household. No army is going to descend on the house because it would attract too much attention. We are probably safer staying here, knowing where the danger lies, than out in the unknown never knowing who to trust. At least here, we know who not to trust. It will keep the Carpenters calmer in the meantime. We also have access to resources that we wouldn’t otherwise have…” Jensen imagined the governor’s office, and if Jessika thought anything was remiss with him, she’d spy their every move. “It’s best to stay normal as possible.”
“Get yourself a shower and collect your thoughts, both of you, then go eat breakfast. I will find out where this Axel fellow is at in the meantime. Either all three of us confront him together, or just you or I do it on our own. What do you think? Is there anyone else you can recruit to help us? I’m afraid I burned all my bridges years ago…”
He turned to leave, eyes falling to Natalie. So much responsibility fell to her shoulders. If she allowed it, he could at least restore her energy and focus. It would take next to no strength, but he'd not push. He did speak softly, though, to her decline, "My offer remains. It is as easy as breathing for me. Think nothing of it, at least I can do something. I have my own life to redeem, too," he said, smiling reverently.