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I noticed that he didn’t say Mithran or blood-servant or give a gender Cagey, Leo

"This person has informed me that this visit by members of the European Council will be used to discover weaknesses in our organization This infor neever, this person has confirer mission whose purpose is to destroy us They wish to acquire our territory and bring it under the control of the Europeans, and not sioire sat up slowly, horror on his face "Pas François!"

Leo said, "Not your sire, my friend"

"Who?" I asked

Bruiser leaned toward oire’s sire was François Le Bâtard, an illegitioulêoire’s titles once, and they were as sparse as they were royal, as I recalled It helped that I had a file on him I pulled up the file on my official cell, which was mated toin his titles about a François d’Angoulêoire, blood-master of Clan Arceneau, of the court of Charles the Wise, fifth of his line, in the Valois Dynasty" So I looked up the royal Charlie the Wise

As I searched, Leo added, ently, "But your brother and your sister Batildis have begun to rally their supporters to this end" I rehts and poufy drawers and buckled shoes, spotted fur on his lapel Grégoire close by The boy and girl vaer They had worn jewelry, Grégoire with a ruby ring The girl’s face had been terrified "And yes," Leo said, "that h he is not scheduled to travel to these shores with the European Council"

Grégoire snarled He actually snarled, like a ticked-off big-cat A perpetually blond, fifteen-year-old va-cat I looked up from under my brows to see his face, vaer Leo placed his own hand over Grégoire’s and a tingle of poept through the roo spiky, of pepper, papyrus, and plant-based ink I looked back to my research as Leo soothed his bestie in French, the syllables soft and fluid, like liquid love I so wanted to learn French

According to oulênac, France, and died on March 31, 1547, in a place I couldn’t pronounce--Rambouillet François Le Bâtard itioulême Of the Bastard, there was no birth date and no death date, which was a good indicator ofnot uished in a jail, or been sent to a penal colony He could have chosen to disappear, or been involuntarily disappeared in dozens of ways and never heard froain But in his case, Le Bâtard had been turned,A bastard had uessed and heard about his maker, the title was appropriate on other levels too, because Grégoire’s maker had been evil personified He had liked little boys in the "You want some candy, little boy?" kinda way He was the sort of vamp I liked to hunt, stake, and decapitate Call me a lover of slasher porn, but some dudes just deserved to lose their heads Both of theoire asked, sounding oire and Leo spent tiether, they tended to talk more in French, and it was totally seductive Not that I’d tell thees," Leo said, "and so about the Europeans’ history Adelaide, enlighten them, if you please"

She raised her tablet and said, "A brief history The European Council’s highest-rankingfrom the first three, the father of Mithrans, Judas Iscariot, and his sons--the Sons of Darkness They were located priely ofthese years, there was relative peace between the vampires and the witches, andthe Roe of Jerusalem The atrocities co city were uni the diaspora in the year 72, they were under persecution from their own people due to those atrocities, and were hounded by the Ro the northern coast of Africa, the southern coast of the Mediterranean, and later in Rome, under the noses of their enemies in the Holy Roman Church They followed the Roman Empire to Constantinople, and when it fell, the vampires--then known as the Mithran Council--moved to France"

I had heard parts of this, and had put other parts together, but the summary answered other questions, like why so many of the older vain with the early Christians--the cross of Golgotha--though for very different reasons The earliest va the diaspora, including to Africa, so the second generation of va to e’ve learned," Del said, "from sources inside the council itself, the Mithrans innew and deadly troubles"

I looked up at that Leo was being awfully free with the info that he had a plant in European va without a reason Maybe nothing love, but there was a reason Or several reasons Vas and old ena

Del continued "In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in a nuovernments, in countries ruled by despots or a military elite, the Mithrans were able to place blood-servants or powerful Mithrans in high levels of the "

She added, "Today, these Mithrans and blood-servants are being hunted by anti-Mithran fanatics,methods that arebarbaric" Herreports, and none of theood reports about bunnies and butterflies