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The black-ic watches contained pieces of the iron spike of Calvary, of Golgotha The crosses of Golgotha had been used to ic ceremony
Now Leo wanted the spike So did the EuroVamps, ere really the earliest vamps created by the Sons of Darkness Sooowhat did the iron froeon?
There were a lot of negatives and dangers to being turned by a vaht could burn them Lack of blood could starve theh after being turned--had to be lived through, and if they didn’t come out of the devoveo sane, then they were put down like rabid dogs Then there was the delore--the insane grief they went through when one of their loved ones died The lack of stability that only eht to a vah the Mithrans hadn’t yet found a cure for the long-chained--the scions stuck in the devoveo--the Sons of Darkness had parleyed with the Anzû to keep their progeny sane fro them sips of Anzû blood It had worked What did Gee DiMercy--the only Anzû in Leo’s territory--know about the dungeon’s only prisoner? He clearly hadn’t known about the arcenciels being around
Not so long ago, Leo had said that the Sons of Darkness had ordered the Mithrans of the Americas to make peace with the Cursed of Artemis--the olves and other were-creatures That order would have been iive with a Son of Darkness chained in the basement So where did the order to parley with the were-community come from? Leo? The other Son? The European Council like the news media said? I hated vamp politics
Even a future parley with the witches was now suspect Was the order to reach rapprochement with the New Orleans witch coven because Leo needed the blackened prisoner and soic to accoer raced underaway at me So many dead Hurt Damn vampire secrets Damn Leo Pellissier But I could kill hiure out
In the base political gaic pocket watches containing parts of aon the Son’s body And a ho had been touched by an angel, had bitten the thing chained to the wall, and was running through the city with a mouthful of the Son of Darkness’ blood in him I had to wonder what the bite wouldwith Batildis, which could only tick off Peregrinus Though he had taken their bodies with hi them back to life, a human with no throat and a va was still in Peregrinus’ possession Soul was going to be really ticked off with me After Bethany had said the arcenciel would be solid, I had expected to see the baby dragon, rinus via some arcane means Or maybe with jesses and a hood, the way people trained raptors to hunt I wasn’t sure what I had seen in the basement, about the arcenciel It was all confused
I also wasn’t sure what I was going to tell Soul, and she didn’t seeht-dragon for to be good Nothing was ever good in the land of the blood-suckers It was always FUBAR fro to end
I laidof Del’s bedrooes of torture to make it perfectly weird I let el as I tried to re the other priestess, Sabina, had said o Sabina ay more sane than Bethany, but she had lost her huo too She had told o, and had failed to rise one night Yeah That was it Leo and Sabina entered his lair together, and the place had stank of violence and blood--of the Son’s holy life blood, or so she had said, and the blood of so else That blood had been splattered on the walls Had that blood been Bethany’s? Had she brought Joses to Amaury Pellissier, the previous MOC? Or to Leo? The century timeline could work either way, but there had to be waySon of Darkness to end up a prisoner in Leo’s baseuessed or figured it out Now everyone knew that Joses was here Del was right It would ure out a way to stop it
Overhead, the lights flickered and the room went black Which was the first time I noticed that I was in an internal room, one with no s, one a vaetting frisky, if ain to be sure, but I didn’t smell Leo They hadn’t spent frisky tihts caenerators went off Power had been restored
I rotated to roaned my way out of the room I found the stairs and lie clothes, cos: a full debrief, to find Brute, and to figure out where the arcenciel was in all the hullabaloo--still with Peregrinus, or escaped? We needed to knohere Bethany had gone with the ht
I was on the stairs when I realized that Bruiser hadn’t shown up I pulled es Eli’s said, Heading back to va him Alex’s said, Gimme call Got info Bruiser’s said, On the way Be safe
That text was more than an hour old, but so far as I knew, he hadn’t shown I texted him back Call me And then texted the Kid to track his cell Bruiser’s text was the one that mattered most
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I was in the shohen I felt cool air whoosh into the room I shut off the water with one hand and simultaneously picked up the nine-e was on the tiled ledge beside s We need to chat" It was Derek Who had disappeared, chasing after Peregrinus Or helping hiht ed to seize Grégoire, Leo, Katie, and all of vaht