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Now Fiona was dying to know exactly what part she had played in Levka’s dream. Maybe she had given him a nightmare, instead of a pleasant dream. He could have really been enjoying his dream until she came along. She sighed. She needed to learn how to control the dream business whenever she used it in any scenario.

Then they finally landed and deboarded the plane. She was looking around for the vampires who had been on the flight and Arman reached down and squeezed her hand. “I don’t see them, do you?”

“No.” She was surprised he was looking for them too. But with all the trouble he’d been in, she guessed she could understand that he would be just as wary as she was.

“Do you see them?” Levka asked telepathically and everyone responded, “No.”

She was glad that everyone was treating them as suspicious, just in case. But they had been sitting in first class and got off the plane first so Fiona and her companions hadn’t had any way of getting after them any quicker than… Fiona looked around. Where was Caitlin?

Levka said to them, “Caitlin was invisible when we landed and was waiting for the vampires to get off the plane. But I don’t see her anywhere and she can’t telepathically communicate with just us, so she has to be silent.” Levka sounded worried that he’d lost her.

“Should we spread out?” Arman asked.

“In twos. I don’t want us all to be separated and lose more of us.” Levka glanced at Fiona as if he was even more worried about her.

Arman said to Fiona, “Do you want to stick with me?”

“Yeah, sure.”

Ruric and Levka stayed together and Jasmine and Stasio began searching the airport too.

13

While searching for Caitlin at the airport, Fiona was really worried about her because she was a newly turned vampire and couldn’t fight the way the others could. Though if she remained invisible, wouldn’t she be safe? But the fact that Caitlin couldn’t send anyone telepathic messages meant only for them didn’t help the situation. Fiona was also concerned that something could have happened to her and it would all be Fiona’s fault because she was certain it would have had all to do with her.

“Caitlin, are you safe? Where are you?” Fiona assumed Levka would have already asked her that, but Caitlin hadn’t answered him. “This is Fiona.” She thought she better add that in case Caitlin didn’t recognize her voice.

But then she remembered that Caitlin couldn’t respond telepathically to her, or she would alert any vampire in the building that she was there, telling them where she was.

“We need to go to baggage claim in case the vampires who were in first-class seating are picking up their luggage,” Fiona said.

“Okay, let’s go that way. They might be going to get transportation, a rental car, or a shuttle to a parking lot also,” Arman said.

Levka said, “Ruric and I are going to the shuttles and taxis.”

“We’re going to baggage claim,” Fiona said.

“We’ll check out the restrooms,” Jasmine said. “That’s the first place I go after getting off the plane.”

“Good idea,” Arman said.

On the way past the restrooms, Arman and Fiona didn’t see Caitlin. Jasmine went inside the women’s restroom and Stasio headed into the men’s room, but there were others too, so the vampire couple might have even gone down to the restrooms near the baggage claim or even to the restrooms near where the shuttles were.

Fiona and Arman headed down the escalator to the baggage claim and when they got there, they saw people standing around at the conveyer belts from different flights, waiting for their luggage to be offloaded from the planes.

“There!” Fiona saw both the male and female vampires. But no sign of Caitlin. Then she remembered Caitlin had been invisible when she left the plane.

“I’ll tell the others the vampires are here,” Arman said to Fiona. “And hope that Caitlin is here.”

Then someone hugged Fiona but no one was there. She nearly screamed out in fright. “Is it you, Caitlin?” She whispered the words so no one else would hear.

Caitlin laughed and Fiona smiled. Now that was a cool, really super cool ability to have. Fiona wished she could do that. She didn’t think the dream stuff was half as worthwhile to have. Unless there was something more to it.

Though it was startling to have an invisible person grab Fiona. But she was thrilled that Caitlin was fine, and she immediately telepathically transmitted to everyone, “Caitlin is standing next to me at the baggage claim.”

Everyone else was coming down the stairs. They didn’t need to collect baggage and Levka said to everyone, “Let’s go. We have our ride.”

Now that was nice. A limousine maybe. Fiona laughed at herself. As if.