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"Led by the growing popular support, soainst the Mithrans in their erous as witches Perhapsan increase in witch hunts and Mithran hunts across the Middle East and in Eastern Europe and Russia," Del said "The Mithrans are fighting back However, a nu power shifts have been draht about the power plays and unrest in the Middle East Many religions had proscriptions against drinking blood and therefore hated blood-drinkers So, yeah, she had a point, but I’d never connected that to fanghead control or varoups have seen the influence of vamps and staked them, which has resulted in world political power shifts Interesting

"The violence isdesperate to find both safe haven and the artifacts of power that they lost during the diaspora According to our source on the council, they believe that with the icons in their hands, they will find security in thiswith such speed and creating such threat to them

"There have beentheir headquarters to the New World Our source believes that they would do so only if they could rounds--which means the extensive territory of New Orleans or New York, as the largest and rounds in the A overtures to the EC for decades," Leo said, his face cold and hard as a block of whitewhat amounts to a tithe to them My predecessor never paid such a tithe in either monies or blood-servants, and neither have I In return for New York’s tithe, I believe that they would leave him in peace and attempt to take this land"

"And if they coe ical artifacts To protect themselves, they may well capture or kill every Mithran, witch, and other supernatural creature alive in the entire United States Certainly in my territory"

That meant my friends, hts, Leo turned his black eyes to me "They are wise to suspectto thes to secure h to buildattempt to reach rapprochement with the witches of the United States and the attempt to locate and secure les objets de la puissance, les objets debefore you came to my lands, ical devices" Leo’s stateical iteinal vampires itches," I said "I’ve never understood why they would want to kill the except to speak, his body as still as white marble, Leo said carefully, "The European witches and Mithrans were in a state of political neutrality until the time of the Spanish Inquisition The persecution by the Church, and by Tomás de Torquemada, their instrument of torture, created a rift between the races, and both caether They were, by then, separate in all things Torquemada and his desire to obtain les objets de la puissance is the cause of the chasm that divides the Mithrans and witches"

To me Adelaide asked, "Have you heard of the Inquisition?"

I was raised in a Christian children’s home Of course I knew a little about the history of the Church I nodded and waffled a hand back and forth "Nothing about how it affected Mithrans and witches"

"Torquemada lived from 1420 to 1498," Del said, "and he used the offices of the Church and European royal politics to take the lands and possessions of those deemed heretics by the Church He tortured and killed uncounted nureat many of those who died were Jews, Musli, he hated the children of Satan, but after a tian to drink blood froan to search, not only for the heretics themselves, but for their objects of power He played the witches and the vaainst one another, and, in a reider, turning into outright enmity"

"If the Europeans co me, "they will not be under e ofa witch using a o"

I froze in ether, how er, and the future that was headed our way I had killed a rogue witch who had summoned a demon with the blood diao lost her mind in contact with the dark spirit, the deet to Leo Pellissier, whohter Even with the power of the ical artifact at her coel to defeat the deht on TV Go, me And now I had the blood diaht I had given the evil thing to Leo

Leo gave ether in my mind "My ene sought are here, in my domain They believe that the artifacts are in my hands, or, less likely but still possible, in yours"

"Holy crap on a cracker," I ical trinkets, and Leo knew I had some of them For reasons I didn’t understand, he hadn’t pressured in for them I had sootha, vaed to keep the ical discs secret I had soic focal stone called the blood diamond, as well as some other trinkets in my possession Most of them were in safe-deposit boxes, which was even better--harder to get to, harder to break into, harder to steal Vas with the objects over the centuries, sos since I’d been around No as I giving the witchy things up to the fangheads, but I kept that off my face I hoped