"I... I saw something." Sam's voice was hoarse, filled with incredulous terror. "A man in a car—a black sedan. It was like something had trapped him. He couldn't move, couldn't struggle, couldn't breathe, and then he suffocated to death!"
The details of the vision and the overwhelming sensation of suffocation crashed through his mind like waves, stirring his brain, vivid enough to make his skin crawl.
"The location. I saw it clearly—the road signs. It was Ohio, Toledo, a parking lot near Union Station!"
Just then, the phone in Dean's pocket rang sharply, shattering the dead silence in the study.
He pulled it out and saw an encrypted message from an unfamiliar number, in a format they knew all too well. It was from their long-missing father, John Winchester.
The message was brief and urgent:
"Ohio, Toledo. An unusual death has occurred near Union Station. Suspected supernatural involvement. Characteristics: suffocation in an enclosed space. Investigate immediately. —Dad"
The time the message had been received was almost exactly the same as when Sam's headache had struck!
Dean abruptly looked up at the still-shaken Sam, then at Wu Heng across from him, whose expression was deep and unreadable.
Sam's vision matched their father's message perfectly—the location, the manner of death, all of it!
They had yet to find any leads on Azazel, yet a new, stranger, more urgent incident had come knocking, seemingly tied closely to some ability Sam had suddenly awakened.
The only sounds left in the study were the crackling fireplace and the heavy breathing of the three men.
After listening to Sam describe the suffocation vision, Wu Heng lightly tapped his long fingers against the armrest of the sofa, a noncommittal expression appearing on his face.
"A prophecy? Foreseeing the future?"
He raised an eyebrow slightly, his voice carrying