Expanded Senses (IV)

Robin set the book bag next to the door and leaned over to slip on her shoes. Amon came up quietly behind her, slipped on his boots, and picked up the book bag, slinging it easily over his shoulders. Robin looked up at him as she stood up ready to go.

"I was going to carry that," Robin said hesitantly.

"I've got it," Amon said with no expression on his face. "So who is it we are going to find before we leave?"

"We have to collect Raven," said Robin calmly as she walked through the door.

Amon sighed, realizing that something had happened, and followed after her. Downstairs Amon handed their keys to the landlord with a tip before they walked out the front door. Robin walked quietly wrapped in her thoughts. Raven's voice and last words floated through her head again.

"If your intentions are good then you can always find those like yourself. Our kind always does."

Amon followed Robin silently as she wandered the streets, not really paying attention to where she was going. All the fields and spells she knew of did not seem very helpful. None had talked about finding others with them. She heard Raven's voice again but this time remembered Raven's hand clutching her arrowhead pendent. Her hand had glowed an odd hue of green and then she had asked Robin, "How do you believe I found you so quickly?"

'Could this have something to do with my pendent?' thought Robin as she glanced at her red pendent.

It looked nothing like Raven's arrow head but perhaps this was the link. Robin stopped suddenly and grabbed her pendent like Raven had done in a determined fashion. Amon was about to ask her a question so to avoid this distraction she began walking briskly, again without aim.

'This has to be it, but her hand glowed; now how do I do that?' Robin closed her eyes and concentrated on feeling the energy around her pendent as she continued to walk.

It was hard to describe what it felt like. It was a mixture of wading through a pool and trying to decipher objects in the rain during twilight. Her mind flashed back again to how Raven had held her pendent and this time as she remembered and waded through the depths of her pendent simultaneously, she could sense and almost see the energy waves encircling her pendent. The energy from her pendent rippled out in a smooth consistent way with a beat that echoed that of Robin's heart. There was a definitive color and ripple that could only be her pendent but within it she sensed another pattern. She stepped further into the ripples and reached out to the new pattern with her mind as a newborn stretches its fingers toward new objects nearby. As she reached it, a wave of energy washed over her, and though the pattern was still jumbled and indescribable to Robin she sensed that it was a part of Raven. Finding this piece within her pendent she withdrew from its depths and turned her mind to the outside world. She could still sense the energies within her pendent but they were not as prominent. It was about this time that Robin also realized that Amon was looking worriedly into her face as she sat with her back against a wall in an alleyway.

"Are you alright?" Asked Amon who waited only for her to nod before asking another question, "What happened?"

Robin did not know how exactly to describe it to him and while pondering how to phrase it she realized that there was a ripple of Raven's presence emanating through the air. She paused to feel it out with her senses. Smaller ringlets of patterns were coming from the south. Could this be what Raven had meant? Was this the way to find her?

"I am not quite sure how to explain it, but I think I discovered how to find Raven," Said Robin as she stood slowly.

"You can explain it to me later then, let's find her before she disappears," said Amon as he slipped into his usual take-charge mode.

As Robin wandered down the alley and across the street towards a park she could not help but wonder about a stray thought sparked by Amon's choice of words. This pendent sensing seemed powerful, if she could master it, and if Raven already had, disappearing would then be one of the hardest things in the world to do.