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I’al rose to his feet "I understand I was thinking of retiring - "

"The hell ye are I need you" Angus al was too tense to comply "Jean-Luc tells me ye can fence equally ith both hands"

"Aye"

"He thinks yer talents are being wasted Roree So hoould ye like to be head of security here?"

Stunned, Dougal sat "Here?"

"Aye, and I’d like to put you back on the aze shifted to the prosthetic hand, then back to Dougal’s face "Can ye do it?"

"Aye" When Angus continued to stare at hi "I can do it I want to do it"

Angus smiled "Good" He motioned to the bottle on the floor "How about a drink to celebrate?"

"Aye" Dougal grabbed the bottle and poured Bubbly Blood into the two coffee cups Angus retrieved froht away" Angus drank fro the silver roouest Who is he?"

"We doona know his na other than curse at us in Chinese JL and Rajiv brought hiain to hunt for Russell"

"Did they find hius took another sip froroup of Master Han’s soldiers ae of arrows took out half the eneus nodded "It must have been him, but when the battle was over, they searched the vicinity and couldna find hial motioned to the monitor "So this is one of Master Han’s soldiers?"

"Aye He’s mortal, or started out that way, but he now has some of the superpowers that we possess We’re no’ sure how Han is transfor to do with the deal frowned They’d defeated villainous vampires before, but never one who had tea for Russell is that he’s hoping to kill Master Han," Angus continued "So in order to find hi with that?" Dougal asked "Should we no’ be trying to kill the bastard?"

"We need to, aye, but ’tis verra hard to actually find hie portion of southern China, Tibet, and the northern portions of Thailand and Myane area to canvas JL and Rajiv have spent months there, and they’ve discovered thirty outposts, each one heavily guarded As far as they can tell, Master Han teleports from one fort to another, and they never knohere he’ll pop up next"

Dougal winced "Like playing whack the mole"

"Aye Master Han has nearly a thousand soldiers now, spread over the thirty outposts JL and Rajiv are so outnumbered that they try their best to avoid any confrontations" Angus sighed "I was discussing this with Roman and Jean-Luc We find ourselves in a moral dilemma"

"How so?"

"They us extended his cup toward Dougal so he could refill it with Bubbly Blood "We never felt guilty about killing Malcontents They’re a bunch of rotten bastards who’ve spent centuries killing al muttered "And they’re already Undead They simply turn to dust after ye skewer them" Just like his hand, once it had been sliced off in battle

Angus nodded "But e kill Master Han’s soldiers, they doona disappear Their bodies reo straight to hell"

Dougal winced "I dinna know that"

"Our guys learned about it on their first ift fro to hih his hair "We doona know if the h vath, and we’re reluctant to engage in battle with these mortals We doona want to kill theal finished his Bubbly Blood and refilled his cup "While ait, Master Han is us drank "That’s why JL and Rajiv brought back one of the soldiers We have soood scientists here: Roure out how the e hi theus finished his cup and set it on the table "Abby has been studying blood and tissue saenetically ’Tis beyond her area of expertise, so she suggested we find an expert to help us out"

Dougal nodded "Did ye find sous referred to the va for an assistant, since he has an increasing number of Vamps and shifters and wee bairns to take care of He found a physician who also has a PhD in genetics A youngher here tonight"

"Her?"

"Aye" Angus stood and paced across the roo the news to her about vaal finished his cup of Bubbly Blood Was it right to drag an innocent, mortal woman into this mess? "She dinna take it well?"

"Nay She beca her memory in order to keep her eal winced "And he’s bringing her here? The place is swarht it best As a scientist, she has great admiration for Roman and his invention of synthetic blood She also knew about Abigail’s achieveusthe ballroo on for a bunch of bairns How frightening can we seeal snorted "So we’ll convince her that we’re as us smiled "That’s the plan"

"What of the erous world? What if she wants nothing to do with us?"

Angus’s s here, I expect you to do yer part to convince her to help us" He held up a hand when Dougal started to object "Yeto involve her, but what if she can free the soldiers who’ve been enslaved by Master Han? There could be over a thousand souls she saves"

So the needs of the ic to it, but it still didn’t sit ith Dougal How often in the past had he ranted against a cruel fate thrust upon hi could happen to this woman

He took a deep breath The die was cast, and he couldn’t fight it All he could do was protect her to the best of his ability "Hopefully she will react well tonight"

"Like ye said, we’ll be as us stepped closer to the wall of lanced at the screen that showed a black Town Car pulling into the parking lot "Who’s with her?"

"Abby picked her up this afternoon at LaGuardia and took her to Roori joined the"