"Is it really enough?" wondered Grayson out loud, him, Aiden, Jake and Molarine stood a distance away from Laura.
She was out of her wheelchair and sat on a stone ground, they had been spending some time searching for a place suitable for Laura to do a divination, surprising mostly everyone as it didn't feel like they had enough at all to find the mastermind.
"It might not seem like it but the few things we discovered are extremely important, as I am looking for a specific person, on which I have some information and since I have met with multiple people he is linked to, in places where he went, I can hardly think of anything else we could find, also, I still got a strand of fur from his beast, I also got a piece of wood from the ship..."
"I will put everything I have in this divination, at best I will pass out and at worst, I will probably die" she said, Laura felt somewhat different, not in the usual sense but rather, on a fundamental level.
"The mastermind seems to be protected against divinations, the last time I tried to find him out, something tried to kill me through the vision I got, I don't aim to confront him, I only want to try and find Dea out at the same occasion..." Laura close her eyes and placed her hand on the stone ground.
"Else, I wouldn't have even thought of messing with this guy" she muttered before suddenly starting her divination.
The strand of fur and piece of wood were consumed as they floated up in the air, the simple magic circles she had drawn on the ground lit up, it wasn't anything groundbreaking, simply the most basic of basics, here as an insurance since she was mostly relying on her special skill.
Black and white, all of the colors, colors that didn't exist, colors that her eyes shouldn't be able to see, it was way different to last time.
No shadowy figure were to be seen anywhere, it felt as though Laura wasn't in control of the divination at all, she should be able to choose were to look but everything seemed automatic here, the various colors mashed together, forming into other colors and forming a place.
A bright hallway, there were no windows whatsoever but everything was bathed in brightness, she could see that the hallway was incredibly lengthy and seemed to be part of some kind of church or cathedral.
She couldn't just know were this specific place was but it was fine, this divination hadn't been birthed out of her powers only, from the side of her vision, a shadowy hand appeared, bending as if it was truly nothing but shadows without any bones, placing a single finger on her forehead, a small tingle was felt as though it had pierced her skull but no pain came and she didn't die either.
Knowledge flooded in her head as she was gently pushed out of the divination, immediately collapsing after waking, only coming back to her senses after a few hours, the knowledge injected in her head still perfectly fresh, it felt like this memory would stay pristine forever.
"It is close-by" she said hesitantly, it didn't take a genius to figure out that the whole thing had been manipulated by the mastermind, it might be a trap but Laura couldn't help but think otherwise, it seemed obvious to her that planting a trap was meaningless for the mastermind, especially when it came to them.
She hadn't gotten anything on Dea either, the vampire was elusive and only few traces of her life before becoming a vampire remained and they were incredibly faint, their only chance to find her out would have been through that mastermind but it was clear that there was no way for them to outsmart him or best him through sheer power.
At least not in the magic departement.
Laura communicated the information to the three men but neither her nor Molarine were going to go with them, the mastermind was their own goal.
As for the two women, it seemed like they would have to find something else to do than chasing after Dea, it was bitter to let go of it after the lives of friends had been sacrificed but there wasn't much more to do.
After only the two of them remained, Molarine spoke up.
"You don't seem very confident in their success, didn't you say that the blondie was pretty much immortal?"
"My divinations revealed that he could return before his death but I ran more than a few divinations on them..." Laura looked at the ceiling.
"My divinations can take multiple form but when it comes to predicting the future, I have never been able to change the fate of someone else than me, even after the unexpected power up I got, it still holds true..."
"For example, you will pick up that glass over there" demonstrated Laura and even though she said it a few seconds before it happened, Molarine still went through with it.
"The only way to somewhat go past that would be involving myself directly and thus allowing me to change it but there are things that can not be changed, on account that if I can't dodge an attack, no matter how much I can know it's coming and how much I can change my own fate, if I can't dodge, I won't" she explained.
"Molarine, I don't know what this mastermind of theirs is but there is no escaping him, they will try to confront him and will preish doing so, I am certain of it"
"You said he was able to mess with your divinations though, can't other things make them innacurate?" asked Molarine as she crossed her arms.
"I hope you are right" simply responded the otherworlder before falling directly back asleep.
Molarine looked into the distance, she hadn't had much reasons to go on a hunt against Dea, she did have one but she had had no care for what Dea could have done to some of her ancestors, a vampire killing people wasn't that big of a deal, all vampires did that.
She had never really thought about it.
'What made me join this crusade?' she wondered pensively, her face remaining as stoic as ever even while thinking so deeply.