Shadow's Fall by Dianne Sylvan

Author:Dianne Sylvan [Sylvan, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781937007386
Google: qnhdypwDNkIC
Amazon: 1937007383
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2012-03-26T13:00:00+00:00

The cell where 8.3 Claret, otherwise known as Monroe, had been held—and had met his unfortunate and messy end—was built out of steel-reinforced cinder block and could stand up to quite a bit of punishment, but it wasn’t designed so much for explosions. Something like, say, the bomb used by Marja Ovaska when she kidnapped Miranda and Deven would have blown the building to smithereens.

Whatever had been used to kill Monroe had been a relatively small charge, just enough to blast a body all over the walls but not enough to damage the structure. Even as hard to kill as vampires were, they were still flesh and blood—a lot of blood, from the look of it. Prime David had surmised that whatever the device was, it had been somehow placed on Monroe’s body—or worse, inside—and then detonated.

Faith watched her commander in chief make his way slowly around the small room, examining the walls through a lens attached to some sort of scanning device. He was muttering to himself, which was a good sign; if he were completely stymied, he would be making an irritable growling noise every few minutes.

She was not pleased to be spending her evening in a tiny room that reeked of charred flesh and splattered gore even after the housekeeping staff had done a cursory cleaning in order to properly see to the remains. David had on gloves and a disposable lab coat that made him look like a mad surgeon to keep any remaining remains off his clothes, and Faith was keeping her distance, though one good thing about wearing a black uniform was that stains weren’t much of an issue. She did, however, wish she had her coat; interrogation rooms were kept very cold, which was why David had been able to leave this for tonight.

The staff hadn’t sanitized the place yet on David’s orders, and the walls were blood-dyed as dark as the floor … but this time not from interrogation.

Plenty of people had died in this cell, but only two she could think of had done so against the Prime’s orders. The first, the traitorous Elite who went by Helen, had self-terminated after her Blackthorn co-conspirator Samuel had slipped her a stake. David had made changes in Elite protocol to make sure that didn’t happen again; now, only he and Faith had the code to enter the interrogation rooms, and they could transmit it remotely in an emergency, but otherwise nobody could get in or out of the cells … well, except for someone powerful enough to Mist.

Prime Deven, for example … and Prime Hart.

“Is Hart strong enough to Mist?” Faith asked.

David, startled out of his wall-scrutiny, turned to her. “More than likely. Most of us are. But those who aren’t would never admit it.”

“So he could have Misted in here and planted the bomb himself.”

“Easily. That’s the only theory I have at the moment as to how this happened—the lock was still engaged up until the door blew out. No one opened the door.

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