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"She maybe left with someone?"
"No Her new blood-servants went to bed with her When the boys woke, all that was left was a pile of dust Ash and soranules, actually"
Myto say to that for way too ured the tered "That is weird, even for fangheads The boys hurt her? Burned her to ash?" Though I had no idea how that ht be possible
"No Leo sent a master he trusts to drink from them At dawn, they went to sleep in a pile like a bunch of puppies and when the boys woke, she was gone"
Froed "You tell her?"
"I did She seems as bemused as we are"
Wrassler popped the knuckles of his left hand, and then the right, and ould have been snaps in an ordinary-sized human wereit" He looked at Bruiser and so passed between them that I couldn’t decipher in the heartbeat of tiot a ht about that for a moment The primo was security chief as part of his duties as prie in the status quo I wondered if the change was due to Bruiser’s own change in status to Onorio and if he’d share later, or if I’d never be told as up Never was more likely Even if Bruiser was some kinda superblood-servant, that didn’t mean he would be free from loyalty to Leo I did wonder if Superblood-Servant warranted his own coht of hi the laughter That’sany similar occurrences in the histories," Bruiser said "It’s nothing to worry yourself over just now, but be aware Wrrassler"--he stumbled over the nickname and I let a s useful"
I’d rather not spend , so I wasn’t going to ask for the gig unless it got round kinda stuff I shook ather?"
"Boss is nervous about it," Wrassler said "Which is why he’s got Bruiser overseeing the caterers personally, handpicking the blood-ner to make sure everyone’s clothes coordinate" He ran his hand over his scalp "Leo hasn’t been this worried about asince the leopards came to visit"
"Who’s the visitor?"
"Don’t know But scuttlebutt says the gather will be to discuss a future visit by the European Council"
I stopped dead at the top of the foyer steps, and so did the , flat-featured face Bruiser atchinga communiqué fro that ht be considered an order or a plan of action The va? Sometime soon? Not their huossips are right, it’ll be the first tihteen hundreds, and the visit could be, maybe, in as little as sixti-lived vauessed the vamps had a lot to plan The European Council probably traveled with their entire households, steamer trunks full of clothes, dozens of servants, a lawyer or two, interpreters, cooks for the humans, et heretraveling like visiting heads of state If visiting va about, then no wonder he orried I would have to readdress every bit of security, both physical and protocols, for that kind of gig, which hy Leo wantedEnforcer I was more up-to-date on current security hardware than Bruiser, his real Enforcer I started down the stairs again, Wrassler besideAnd this tis Bruiser was a legdeep inside
"In addition to the announceather, and an introduction of the new Mithrans"
Wrassler looked disgruntled at that and rubbed his scalp again, a gesture that ot details" He pointed to the waiting roo cell just off the foyer I ith hi hiured he would catch up with e and handed o, Leo sent Grégoire to Atlanta, to reorganize De Allyon’s clans, to bring to the light the Naturaleza who refused to accept Faoire, Leo’s secondo heir, had been sent to clean up theto the light" was for vampire true-dead Fame Vexatum was the way vamps lived in the modern world They pretty er ifts of compulsion and more mental control than other vamps, Naturaleza va a can of Red Bull "De Allyon had a huraa" Whatever he saw on my face made him chuckle dryly "Yeah Federal cops are involved, and PsyLED, and because of all the hoopla, Leo has instituted the hostage chapter of the Vae?"
"Yeah When Leo put Shaddock on notice for a decade of reorganization before he could apply for Master of the City status again, he set up an exchange provision"