A Shade of Vampire 89: A Sanctuary of Foes by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2020-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

Inside, we found everything we’d hoped for and everything Brandon had mentioned. Jericho and Thayen exchanged anecdotes about how they’d vanquished their vampire guards, trading tips on how to properly sneak up on someone. Thayen had had the advantage of being a vampire himself. The clones hadn’t even seen him coming.

We stocked up on everything we could carry: healing potions and rations of protein-rich bars that were usually handed out to non-vampire agents on long-range missions; thermally insulated blood bottles for Thayen to feed on, which could last up to a month unopened, per their labels; knives and swords and belts to mount them on; satchels with invisibility pellets galore; and pulverizer weapons, one each, with ten magazines that could fit with everything else in the backpacks, the latter found in a black metallic cabinet at the far end of the armory’s main room. There was even Elmin Essence, which Amane and Dmitri had come up with a couple of years ago—it was better than the black dust we’d previously used to hide our tracks. Therefore, it would be handy.

Since the clones were made after us, these supplies were valuable and necessary. But there were other rooms in the armory that were different from the ones in The Shade. Briefly going through each, I noticed spaces designed to hold various clone-specific items, such as the strange cubes that caused unbearable, ear-bleeding sounds, the reflecting disks, and plenty of black mist canisters.

Thayen joined me as I stared at an entire wall covered with aluminum shelves filled with the nightmare-inducing sprays, my blood running cold as I remembered what Haldor had done to Jericho and Dafne with his black shadowy mist. “It’s the same as Haldor’s, you know. The stuff in these canisters,” I muttered. “Only he seems to produce it naturally.”

“They probably found a way to bottle it up,” Thayen replied. “We could take some and use them against the clones…”

I shook my head, vehemently against it. “No. I wouldn’t wish those horrid sentiments and living nightmares upon anyone, not even these psycho copies of ours. This isn’t warfare. This is something infinitely worse, and I fear our souls would never recover if we stooped to their level.”

“Then we blow this place up. Make it harder for the clones, at least for a day or two. They’ll have to make do with what they’ve got on them, but the majority of their weaponry and ammunition is stored here. We could deliver quite the blow.”

That made sense. “Sure. Sounds like a good plan. But we’ll have to run really fast and as far away from here as possible. Once this place blows, the clones will head this way. Hordes and hordes… not to mention Haldor. He’s never too far behind.”

“We can use these,” Thayen said, holding up two packets filled with a shimmering white powder. Timers had been fitted on the side, with colorful wires connecting the device directly to the packet. “High-grade explosives, for when we don’t have dragons handy. We can detonate them remotely with this,” he added, showing me a small remote.

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