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Giovanni nodded "You are welcootten your service to us in China"

He had joined in Giovanni and Beatrice’s fight icepan>n China, even though it had not been part of his mission and Ernesto had not been pleased "I failed in China"

The other ed "That depends on your definition of failure, I suppose"

He would have to think about that later "I hope our presence does not cause probleantly "I do not fear Ernesto He knows better And I told hiain in a fight" He pushed away from the bookcases and said, "I don’t know that I would say the same for him"

He watched the Italian walk away Odd That had to have been their e His ears perked when he heard Beatrice mention the word "elixir"

"What did you say?"

She looked over her shoulder "I said that it could be this is the first evidence we’ve seen of Elixir in America"

"Elixir?" Natalie asked "What’s Elixir?"

He walked over to her side and perched on the edge of the table "Isn’t this what you were going after in Roht it had all been destroyed"

Giovanni shook his head "We thought that too, but theboxes of Elixir were never found And then last year, some of our friends found it in Ireland Apparently, whoever wasmanufactured indistributed"

"Shit," hewere true, this was a bigger problem than a few murdered humans

"Can someone fill me in, please?" Natalie was annoyed "What is Elixir?"

Beatrice was the one who spoke up "It was intended to be a kind of cure It was firstthe medieval period in the Middle East An early chemistry experiment with vampire blood Humans can’t drink our blood It can be used on open wounds, but unless a human is at the point of death andhim or her sick Elixir was intended to overcoestible to humans so it could heal them the e can heal each other"

"Okay…" Natalie was a little confused, but she was saps "So it was made to be kind of a cure-all for huuys do That’s not a bad thing, so so with curing humans, if a human drank the elixir, it made their blood…" He broke off, at a loss for how to explain it