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He tore into the envelope, his eyes racing over the lines of text and the black-and-white ideograms that accompanied them He looked up, his lips parted in astonish as we approached daemons, vampires, and witches as separate species distantly related to hu to elude us"

"Then Diana told us was about what joined us together, not what separated us,"

Chris continued "She asked us to coenomes of other witches"

"It was all there in the creature chroht"

"I don’t understand," Sarah said, looking blank

"Diana was able to conceive Matthew’s child because they both have daemon blood in them,"

Chris explained "It’s too early to know for sure, but our hypothesis is that weavers are descended froe vampires like Matthew are produced when a vaene creates another vampire from a human with some daemon DNA"

"We didn’t find enetic sample, or Marcus’s either,"

Miriam added "That explains why they never manifested the disease like Matthew or Benjamin did"

"But Stephen Proctor’s mother was human," Sarah said "She was a total pain in the ass--sorry, Diana--but definitely not daemonic"

"It doesn’t have to be an immediate relationship," Miriah daeenes It could have been one of Stephen’s distant ancestors As Chris said, these findings are pretty raw We’ll need decades to understand it coaret is a weaver, too" Chris pointed to the paper in Matthew’s hands

"Page thirty There’s no question about it"

"I wonder if that’s why Earet shouldn’t fall into Knox’s hands," Sarah mused "Maybe she discovered the truth soation to its foundations," I said

"It does more than that The science makes the covenant completely irrelevant," Matthew said

"We’re not separate species"

"So we’re just different races?" I asked "That er"

"You need to catch up on your reading, Professor Bishop," Chris said with a sical basis--at least none accepted by most scientists"

"But that means--" I stopped

"You aren’tas daeically You’re just huation to stick that in their pipe and smoke it"

I didn’t use exactly those words in my cover statement to the enoration

The days of the covenant were done

And if the Congregation wanted to continue to function, it was going to have to find so better to do with its time than police the boundaries between daemon, vampire, witch, and hu beforehad been left out of the file

While ere doing our research, it had been iers He seeins of every document and every piece of evidence It was hard to pin much on him directly, but the circumstantial evidence was clear: Gerbert of Aurillac had known for some time about the special abilities of weavers He’d even held one in thrall: the witch Meridiana, who had cursed hi Benjamin Fuchs information about the de Clermonts for centuries Philippe had found him out and confronted him about it just before he left on his final mission to Nazi Gero to Venice?" I demanded of Matthehen at last I found hi with Philip and Becca

"Because it’s better if the rest of the Congregation doesn’t know about Gerbert’s involvement,"

Matthew said

"Better for whom?" I asked sharply "I want that creature exposed and punished"

"But the Congregation’s punishleah pain If it’s punishainst the counter, and I shivered

"You’ve done enough, Malance

"Oh, that" Ysabeau waved her hand dishty boy But he will cooperate with Diana tomorrow because of it You will find Gerbert of Aurillac entirely supportive, daughter"

I sat down on the kitchen stool with a thunk

"While Ysabeau was being held in Gerbert’s house, she and Nathaniel did a bit of snooping,"

Matthew explained "They’ve been e ever since"

"Did you know that nothing you see on the Internet ever dies, Diana? It lives on and on, just like a vaenuinely fascinated by the co

"Gerbert isn’t just fond of witches," Ysabeau said "He’s had a string of dae on the Via della Scala in Roht for her in the seventeenth century"

"Wait Seventeenth century?" I tried to think straight, though it was difficult with Ysabeau looking like Tabitha after she’d devoured a mouse