"Yes," Kate said, as a shiver passed through her. It wasn't thirty seconds before Gabe walked through the kitchen like a man on a mission and went straight out the back door. "Gabe felt it too," Kate said, judging by the pace of Gabe's stride. "He's on it already."
"Let's get this back to the house so Gabe can look at it," Michael said. "Then, I presume we'll destroy it." He quickened his pace to head back to the house, but he was still purposely mindful of looking for anything else suspicious that he might find on the way. Gabe met them at the very edge of the woods.
"What did you dig up?" Gabe scowled.
"We did do some digging--literally," Michael said. "Does this mean anything to you?" Michael handed the pendant to Gabe. Gabe looked at it, scowling deeply.
"Well, this is interesting indeed," Gabe said. He cast a spell on the pendant, and the instant he cast the spell, the cold, dark vibration that had come from it seemed to stop. "It's dead now," Gabe told them. "I deactivated it. Do you know what it is?"
"It's a tracking pendant," Michael said.
"It certainly is," Gabe said. "Seen them before, have you?"
"Yes," Michael said. "And some looked almost identical to this one."
"Probably because I would be they're being made by the same dark alchemist," Gabe said. "I know him well, and he's not a friend. He isn't to be trusted. However, this would explain a lot of the dealings we had with the shapeshifter. It does, however, tell us that the shapeshifter doesn't have to be a brain surgeon so long as she knows someone else who is."
"This alchemist is smart, then?" Michael asked.
"Oh, indeed, yes," Gabe said. "However, this will crimp his style a little by finding one of his little toys and disabling it. Well done, you two. We are significantly safer now for the moment. And your timing seems good, because I think Kate and Jess will soon have lunch ready."
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