The New Heroes League: Part 5
"That would be bad," Daniel said, straightening as much as he could in the cramped back seat. "But," he continued, "you'd probably know if it were someone in your family were doing that kind of thing."
Off to my right, Haley said, "I might not. You don't really think he'd be there, do you?"
"I don't know." Daniel sounded thoughtful. "There's got to be some reason he's coming back every year and that's as good a reason as any. What I think we ought to do is get together some night and I could try to find him."
"By doing the 'sense the greatest threat' thing?" I said. "Which works if he really is the greatest threat, but what if he's not?"
"I think I can try to sense what kind of threat he is."
"Well, that would be cool," I said. "Do we really want to go after this guy though? I mean considering his record of hunting people down?"
Cassie leaned forward and put her hand on the back of my seat. "I think he's ideal. He's high profile and if he has powers, they're not important enough to show up in the database. All he's got is weapons training and gadgets. If we take him down, we'll have a helluva rep."
I considered pointing out that lack of powers didn't necessarily make you an easy mark, but didn't.
"If we really are going to go after him, we're going to have to make sure that our families and friends aren't vulnerable. Thanks to the block, I know that our families aren't, but I'm thinking about Kayla," I began.
"You're not going to go on about that again?"
"I feel like I should. The guy's some kind of specialist in finding people's secret identities and killing their friends. I'm not talking about just doing it to her. We should ask her or something and if she says yes... I don't know, just make it so that she won't talk about secret stuff except with us."
"Daniel doesn't even like doing that kind of thing. Do you?" From the corner of my eye, I saw her turn her face toward him.
"I'm okay with it if it's voluntary. My dad never liked how the original League just imposed the block, but giving people a choice is different. Plus I wouldn't be erasing anything. Just hiding it."
"Okay. I don't like it, but I'll ask her."
I felt the seat move as she let go and leaned back.