Early the next morning Arianna tests Annie to find out how she was able to get through the wards and shields. It turns out I was right Annie's has some dragon in her DNA. I think it's great and so does everyone else. She is upset though, she thinks it's her fault that her kids got sick. I assured her it's not her fault. But it will make the kids stronger when they get older. Also she might be able to do some of the things we can do. She kinda liked that idea. So now we know how she got through.
For the rest of the day most of the men walked the perimeter of the community. The teens practiced and played with Amber. After that everyone went inside to eat and relax for a while. Annie kept Amber in the house for the rest of the day. Every so often one of the men would come back to the community and give us an update. So far everything is going well. Then at dusk Gabriel games back to tell us that the SUV is driving around out there. They keep getting turned around. So far they can't seem to find us. When it became true dark four vampires and two hell hounds got out of the car. I watched them search for hours trying to figure out where we went. The leader of the group started bitching at the others."I thought you said this was the right place. I don't see anything proving there could be dragons here. I thought you said you saw one. I don't see how anyone could be out here. Not even the hounds can pick up their sent. You must have the wrong place, and now I have to give the news to our leader. He is going to be pissed."
After that they all got in the car and drove away. We waited to make sure they didn't come back. After a half hour we went back to the houses. Everyone compared notes and we talked about things that might help push them further away.
Finally Lilly and Arianna came up with a plan. It was interesting to watch as they build this plan off of what each other is saying. First Lilly starts by asking," How far away does Gabriel live? They might have followed him from the hospital. Arianna can you maybe push the dragon feel away from this town so they can't find it again?"
" That's a great idea, I can take a pinch of dragon essence and send it as far north as I can."
"And try to make it pass by the Hell Hounds as well, so they catch the trail."
" Maybe somewhere like Canada, that is really far north. Then it will take them a while to figure things out when they loose the trail."
"No, instead of them loosing the trail, I could send it past Canada. Maybe attach a cloaking spell to it and tag a hound with it. Every time they talk about turning back the hounds catch a whiff of dragon essence going forever north. As far away from us as possible."
"Perfect, can we start tonight? And will it help if you have a bit of hound to attach it to? Because Gabriel dropped this off earlier."
"Your a genius, this will be perfect to attach it to the hound. When I'm done it will start heading out tonight."
"Great is there anything I can help you with?"
"No you helped enough I have to go."
With that she walked upstairs and we didn't see her the rest of the night.