Brothers to the Death by Darren Shan

Author:Darren Shan [SHAN, DARREN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780316202251
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Part Three

“Randel Chayne can damn well wait.”

Chapter

Eleven

When Larten left Vampire Mountain shortly after the end of Council, he knew he wouldn’t return in the near future, as he didn’t want to get mixed up in Wester’s political games. But he had no idea that it would be almost half a century before he’d gaze upon the peak of the great mountain again. If he had known, he might have paused to glance back and savor the sight. But probably not. He was a vampire, and the children of the night had little patience for sentimental nonsense.

The next few years were a bloody time, both for Larten and for the world. He and Arra crossed an endless array of grisly battlefields that had scarred the soil of so many countries. Even the war-weary Larten had never seen such mounds of corpses before, or watched humans fight so savagely, destructively, inhumanly.

They encountered almost no vampires in their travels. The members of the clan wanted nothing to do with the atrocities. This was not war as they knew it—it was plain, bloody butchery.

Larten sometimes wished that Vancha hadn’t just threatened the Nazi leader, but killed him when he had the chance. Maybe this could have been avoided if the vampires had been harsher. Nobody had predicted a war on such a scale, but they’d guessed that the Germans would drag the world into battle. Perhaps they should have done more to prevent this from coming to pass.

Arra argued against that when he told her of his thoughts. “We can’t intervene in the affairs of humans,” she said. “We put their ways behind us when we were blooded. Humans and vampires were not meant to mix. If we involved ourselves in their problems, more would learn of our existence, and that would lead to trouble. Millions would want to be blooded, to enjoy long lives and extra strength. But they wouldn’t care about honor or our laws. They’d only want power. If we refused their advances, they’d seek to destroy us, so that we couldn’t enjoy what had been denied to them.”

It was the old argument for why vampires didn’t meddle and it was as valid now as it had always been. But Larten still sometimes studied the ruined landscape and wasted lives, and wondered.

One thing he never wondered about was his quest. Randel Chayne had crossed all lines of decency and deserved to be punished. It didn’t matter to Larten that so many others were committing even worse crimes than Randel’s. He couldn’t solve all of the problems of the world and he wasn’t fool enough to try. But he could do all in his power to make sure that the rogue vampaneze paid for what he had done.

Larten made no headway for a long time. The vampaneze, like the vampires, were keeping their heads down during the calamitous war, harder to locate than ever. Larten only found two in the first couple of years. Both accepted his challenge and died at his hand, but neither knew anything of Randel Chayne.

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