So that was it then? I didnāt believe him, to be honest. I felt like there was a bigger picture behind his role in the Ward, but kept it to myself. He must have been important, whether he knew it or not. Otherwise, with the amount of malice Gunther referred to Vampires with, why would he trust Michael of all of them? There must have been some change in him, something that sparked my fatherās decision and interest in him. After all, Iād seen Mike on countless monitors back in Antarticaā¦
Which reminded me. Iād gotten a taste of the air outside when Iād had been transferred from plane to truck. It was cool now, at the night, but I knew what Arizona was, and I was not looking forward to the sweltering heat of tomorrow.
"Any other questions?" Mike asked in a cool voice. I struggled to match my pace with him step for step as he seemed to unconsciously speed up.
All of a sudden a tirade of questions assaulted my mind, things I wanted to know, things Iād never seen, people Iād never met but knew ofā¦
āHave you met them,ā I asked quietly, still straining to keep up with him, āThe winged children I meanā¦what are they likeā¦Where am I staying?ā
I had a feeling that we wouldnāt be going anywhere special tonight. It was already late, and, from what I knew, I doubted the idea that shopping areas would be open. For a second I felt a pang of regret, wishing that I could have arrived earlier so that he could have taken me somewhere else, anywhere. I remembered once seeing a āMcDonaldsā on the screen of one of my fatherās monitors as he observed some of our escapees.
I wanted to go to McDonalds one day tooā¦.
And then I asked, āWhatās McDonalds?ā
I inwardly cringed. I had a vast expanse of knowledge, but not an in depth look into what I knew. It was embarrassing to say the least.