"Now, as her new handler, you will need to be in the general area, whoever and wherever she is. You need to monitor on whatever we give you. She is your responsibility. If anything happens to her, you will be blamed." Rebecca vented to me outside the company van, one hundred metres down the road from the Strigoi. "Inside this van is all the equipment. Homing devises, cameras, microphones. Everything."
We walked into the van which was quite small, but fit five people in comfortably.
She turned on me. "You do realize that as long as Rose is Echo, you will not be at the school. Even at her Echo state you still need to look after her."
I nodded. This wasn't much different from before. In fact, this is oddly too much like it.
"I do." I confirmed.
"Excellent. Welcome to the club. Now, Echo is down the road exactly one hundred metres away from this spot. That gives enough reaction time to get in there if anything goes wrong. Now, you aren't her handler yet because she needs your imprint, but you will be helping us."
Everything Rebecca said sounded professional. I wondered if this girl ever got a break, or a smile.
She looked down at a computer, monitored by Kirova.
"So far, we have learnt their next move. It's not good, so, we will be retreating."
"Retreating?" I asked.
"Yes, to help the school. A storm is upon us, and Echo will be against us."
"But you said she wasn't on anyone's side!" I said in desperation.
"I never said that." She stated. "And we can't get her out in time without looking suspicious. We will make sure she doesn't get harmed, but we have to play along. So…she needs to be kidnapped."
My mouth dropped to the floor.
"And further more, you will be the one to do it."
I needed to travel around the world now, because my mouth hit china.