Second Sight (excerpt)

CHAPTER 1 [excerpt]:

"OUCH!" Grace Archer complained, pulling her head from between James' hands and falling forward into the soft grass of Faerie.
     It had been months since the battle with Lilith had left her resurrected with weird god-like powers. She had used those powers, the Roth de Shar they called it, to bring Chris back from death, and to destroy Lilith and her cohorts.
     Except for Samael, she thought, grinding her teeth.
     Somehow the treacherous snake had escaped and was, as of yet, still wandering the world somewhere.
     "You have to focus if you want this to work, Grace," James complained with a frustrated sigh.
The problem was that her focus was splintered. Since she had returned to Faerie, her power of foresight had gone AWOL-absent without leave. At first she thought she had simply drained her inner battery. But as time went on her powers did not return. And that worried her.
     Worry rapidly turned into heart-pounding fear. The mind splitting headaches and temporary blackouts made her want to vomit from sheer pain, but in the end those visions of the future had allowed her to save the people she loved. And, like it or not, she needed those glimpses of the future.
     "Are you sure you can do this?" she demanded, rolling onto the balls of her feet and dusting the grass off her knees.
     James snorted, his eyes flashing an angry red before shifting back to their multi-colored hues. He was the only person Grace had ever met with one green eye and one blue eye. Those eyes were a contradiction, much like the man himself. He had been kind to her at times, but more often than not tended to treat her like a waste of flesh. Like today, for example.
     "If you'd just put a little effort into it," he scolded, "we wouldn't be having this issue."
     "I am putting effort into it," she argued.
     "No, you're not. You can't be divided now. I need your complete attention or we'll never get you fixed and we'll never be able to track Samael."
     Grace was still fuzzy on how her jacked-up powers of premonition were going to help them track down the little worm, but she was all for it. Part of her wanted nothing more than to find Samael and flay him alive. He had, after all, been the one who betrayed the Guardians and handed James to Lilith for torture to get Grace's location. And he had killed Chris. Sort of....