It turned out that the sunset silhouette Brennan originally made out to be a person was actually a bent young tree.  When he arrived in the clearing and discovered his error, he chuckled to himself. He sat himself under an evergreen tree, the sunset to his right, and closed his eyes in meditation with his back against the pine, content to wait. Patience was paramount for vampires; patience being a virtue that he believed the moon faction had in spades over the sun vampires.