When Talea didnt answer, Esperanza left her a voicemail. "Talea, get out of there faster....you gotta call me...there's a problem." Her voice was wrong, there was something wrong with it, it was filled with pain and yet not pain at the same time, tired and not.
As soon as she hung up the phone and tried to stand up she heard it, Armand's voice in her head, calling her name. She doubled over and put a hand over her eyes. The world in her head was still spinning, but she knew that it wasnt. It was almost as if just the sound of his voice tore her mind and spirit apart. Her body felt better, much better than it had at the start of the fight with Armand. Weird, thats really weird. Oh goddess, why is he in my head...whats wrong with me!
She took a tentative step forward and when she didnt fall over on her face she moved a little faster. There was a safe house just down the street that she could get into. There were things in there that she would need. She stopped at the end of the alley, it was as if his voice wasnt just in her head, it was almost as if that calling voice was in all of her, in her soul, her bones, her skin, her...blood... Esperanza stopped and looked wide eyed up at the sky, she understood it, and knew that it would be more dangerous this way.
She pulled her phone out as she ran across the street. "E. It's Esperanza, I'm heading west on Grove street toward the safe house. Hey, so, I need your help again. How do you get vampire blood out of your system, or block any kind of transmissions through it?" The man on the other end was silent for just a second before asking, "Esperanza, what happened?" She replied and was only able to get out one word, "Armand..." before E. the man on the phone told her that there would be someone waiting at the safe house, it might even be him if he could get there in time. She hung up and tried Talea again..."TALEA, please pick up this time...please..."