Bas decided to go back to the Observatory and tried to persuade Anita to go too. He’d been paying close attention to the energy since Philip’s death and wanted to see if there had been any movement in the last few hours. Interested as Anita was to see the effect this was having on the energy, she wanted to mull over what had happened at the Temple, so opted for a run by the river instead. She agreed she would stop by the Observatory and pick up Bas later and they could head to The Island together.
After her brief encounter with the Descendants, Anita felt like a wound spring. She was angry at herself for her uncontrollable and embarrassing energy, and Alexander’s cryptic comment about her being an asset had left her feeling vulnerable. She didn’t understand why they were here, but the whole thing had left her deeply unsettled. Anita felt out of control, and she didn’t like it.
She ran for miles along the river, her long, muscular legs eating up the ground. The shallow, meandering water usually took her mind off whatever she was preoccupied with, but today it was no help. She ran faster and faster, but this just seemed to make it worse. She was more frustrated by the end than she had been at the beginning, and by the time she got to the Observatory, she was in a foul mood.