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Brenna frowned She had searched the house fro to find where he slept How had she ertips through the water, erasing the ie She poured the water down the sink then went into the hallway She walked the length of the corridor but there was no sign of a door
Standing at the end of the entryway, she gathered her powers around her
"A hidden door is here today, bring ht, show athered around her, then outlined a small narrow door located on the left side of the hallway She stooped in front of the portal There was no latch Dropping to her knees, she ran her hands over the door,a long staircase that led down, down, into darkness At her touch, the blueto the kitchen, she found a candle, then made her way back to the hidden doorway A quick incantation lit the candle
She hesitated a ainst the wall and the other holding the candle out in front of her, she crawled through the doorway, then walked down the stairs
She paused at the bottoht she was in the baseer and filled with old furniture and boxes She glanced around, seeing nothing until she used the Sight again And then she saw it, the faint outline of another door This one was average size Once again, there was no discernable latch; once again, she ran her hands over the front and sides but this door refused to budge She tried several incantations, but to no avail The door refused to open
With a sigh of discouragement, she turned and went up the stairs What would she have done if the door had opened? Did she really want to see Roshan lying there, unet close to hi him Would his skin have felt cold, lifeless? Would he have known she was there?
When she reached the head of the stairs, Morgana was sitting there, waiting for her The cat regarded her through narrowed yellow eyes, her expression clearly stating that breakfast was long overdue
After closing the door, Brenna bent down to scratch Morgana's ears, then went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for herself and the cat
Deep in his lair, awareness stirred through the sleeping va that so hier And then Brenna's scent was carried to hi breath of air She had been in the outer chamber of his lair He had only a moment to ponder such a reed hiain
Anthony Loken stood in the doorway of his laboratory, his brow furrowed as he regarded the body on the table Such a foolish boy, to believe that anyone could produce a cure for the Dark Trick
With a shake of his head, Loken removed the tubes from the limp, pale arms, then, careful to make sure the stake remained firmly buried in the boy's chest, he lifted the body into his ar the front door, he glanced right and left to ht and then tossed the vampire's body out into the yard There was a feint sizzle as the sun's light fell on preternatural flesh and then, in the blink of an eye, the body of Jian went up in flaround where the boy's body had been Nothing rean had ever existed Efficient, Lokenthe door, Loken returned to his lab In all his years of searching, Dugan was the first genuine vaht At last, fortune had serator where he had stored the vampire's blood and withdrew one of the vials Now that he had what he needed, perhaps he would finally be able to discover what it was about the blood of the undead that allowed vae their shape, to travel great distances in a blur of movement But it was the vampire's ability to survive for centuries that Loken craved Why should he be subject to the few years of a ence and power, a warlock without equal, yet he was subject to the ravages of age, disease, and death True, sorow old and weak His lifelong goal had been to find away to enjoy a vas or lirasp!
He pulled the microscope fro on a pair of gloves, he prepared several slides with the blood of the vampire
He placed the first one under thewith excitement, he bent his head over the instrument and stared into the eyepiece For several ot to breathe but si he in his experience enabled hi mass of red blood cells so dark as to be almost black, cells that appeared to devour one another until only a few rean tohis head, he removed the first slide and replaced it with a second, and then a third
What did it mean? If he was to inject himself with the vampire's blood, would it endow him with the vampire's power? Or would the vauinea pig, that hat he needed
He quickly put everything aiped a bit of dried blood off the exahts A guinea pig shouldn't be too hard to find One of the gullible pseudo-vamps from the Nocturne A bu athered near the bus stop in the south end of the city looking for work He had only to take his pick
Whistling softly, he left the lab,sure to lock the door behind hi dinner and talking to the cat He stood there athe softly rounded shape of the woman, the silky sheen of her hair, the way her jeans molded to her slilanced over her shoulder and saw hi in the doorway
"Don't let ana looked quite interested in what you were saying"
"How long have you been standing there?" Brenna asked, her blush deepening to ashade of pink