Queen of Gods (Vampire Crown Book 1) by Scarlett Dawn & Katherine Rhodes

Author:Scarlett Dawn & Katherine Rhodes [Dawn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down Write Nuts
Published: 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

~ GWYNNORE ~

Dia de los Muertos.

Day of the Dead.

The name was deliciously appropriate.

The Spanish sounded so romantic as it rolled off my tongue.

“The overlords moved the Blood Rite to coincide with the festival nearly a century ago.” Adelie fussed in my closet searching for something. “Everyone agreed it was just too marvelous a festival to not take advantage of. Mostly, it’s celebrated in Mexico, but there are a lot of people all over the world who love it, so we use it.”

I folded my arms. “They just up and moved the Blood Rite?”

She peered at me through the clothes. “Please. Is anything in our world done that simply?” She ducked back down. “Of course it wasn’t just up and moved. It took years of petitions, and causes and revisions, and arguments and proofs… It’s like, come on, you ancient assholes. Just realize this is a good thing. This is just another way to hide. If our Blood Rite were at the same time as the humans held Dia de los Muertos and Halloween, it was just another level of protection.”

“Halloween. Hmm. That’s the Christian usurpation of Samhain, right?”

“It is. The human witches still observe it, but most human children in the New World dress up for Halloween. It’s just so much fun that we can go freak people out during Blood Rite and not be feared.”

“They don’t fear us—”

“Perfect.” She lifted a long black shift and held it out. “And no, they don’t fear us on that one day. Show up a week later, and you’d have humans pissing themselves. But that one day, we can go out, show everything about ourselves, and they love being terrified by it.”

“Interesting.”

Adelie shook her head. “Humans are so damn weird.”

I laughed and took the dress as she held it out for me. “What the hell is this? Am I dressing up as a nun?”

“No. This is part of the celebration. Everyone wears formless black clothes and paints their faces like a skeleton. But not a regular skeleton.” Opening the computer on the desk, Adelie typed in a few words and the images of painted faces popped up. They were magnificent and colorful while still looking like the dead. “Like this. Now, the only requirement as a vampire at the masquerade is that you have to wear a red hood, but as a candidate for queen, you can do what you like as long as it’s red. I have ideas. That’s how the humans know we live in the castle. They all—”

“The humans? What?” My eyes widened. I had to have heard her wrong.

“The one day a year we invite the locals in and host a party.”

“The villagers? But it’s such a small town. Do we replace the residents every year?”

“We don’t kill them anymore. It’s not efficient. All the drinks are spiked, and the humans are delirious most of the night but happy and high. We use a drug called Molly. Ecstasy. They love it, and they are smiling and… well, you’ll see.

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