Victoria’s gaze flitted between the sidewalk and the few people who passed by on foot. Everyone suddenly looked suspicious, as if they hid some dark secret, and every car that sped by seemed an ominous omen, part of her expecting one to come to a screeching halt any moment and Luc or Nyaira to jump out from inside. 
	At Alex’s reminder about campus, she groaned and ran a hand through her long hair, the sun glinting on it and making a blue-ish hue shine in the dark strands.
	College. In light of everything that had happened, she had all but forgotten about the reason she was in the city in the first place. She had not even made it through a single full day of classes.
	“Fan-freakin’-tastic,” she muttered. She took a deep breath, her gaze turning to follow a man with a cellphone pressed to his ear as he passed by. “How can they even [i]do[/i] that? It’s not like I left a scent or something for them to follow here.”