Blood Communion (The Vampire Chronicles #13) by Anne Rice

Author:Anne Rice [Rice, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Fantasy, Paranormal, Thrillers, Supernatural
ISBN: 9781524732653
Google: m9xGDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-10-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

When the sun set, we talked amongst ourselves and agreed that Rose and Viktor had to remain below, but it was perhaps safe for Armand to go up and confer with Eleni and Allesandra and Everard, whom he had not spoken to now in two nights. They had repeatedly insisted that they were in no danger from Rhosh, and Armand thought they were wrong. They were in the far dungeon now.

“This being has gone mad,” said Armand.

It was then that the next package arrived, a small gold casket this time, which contained a vial of ashes and Louis’s favorite emerald ring.

A fledgling had brought it down to us, in the form of a simple parcel from the same courier service, in the hands of a wan fragile thing with flowing hair and a short flowered dress with puff sleeves. Her arms were white.

I’d turned my eyes away as Marius tore open the wrapping. But then I had looked back and seen the emerald ring.

It seemed altogether impossible that this pain would stop, and altogether impossible that it could go on.

“You never loved him,” Armand said bitterly. I closed my eyes. “You were cruel to him. I protected him from you.”

I heard Marius’s soft murmur begging Armand not to say such things, and then Sybelle whispering to Armand that we all loved one another. That was the way now. And Rhoshamandes knew it, and could take any one of us and inflict unspeakable pain on the others.

“Cursed dybbuk!” Benji said. “Come on, now, Armand, don’t torture him. Be wise. Be calm.”

Talking. The fledgling’s name was Marie, simply Marie, the oldest and most popular name in Christendom, and she had met the “man” and signed for the package as she had approached the Château. She’d never been here before. She’d only found us after a search. Marius told her she must stay now. She was immensely excited by all that was happening, but she had the good sense to be quiet.

I lay on the bench listening to the others.

Marius didn’t want Armand to go to the other dungeon. Yes, said Marius, Eleni and Allesandra and Everard had told absolutely everything that they knew of their old master, Rhoshamandes, to Seth and Kapetria and her tribe. But Armand wanted to confer with them. Who knows? They might know something about Rhoshamandes, some little thing that others had forgotten.

The house was empty now, save for those in the far dungeon. And Marius said that Armand could not go to the dungeon alone.

Finally Marius raised his voice in exasperation, and told Armand to stay here, and the matter was settled, and if he dared to try to leave, he would deal him such a blow as he’d never felt.

Silence after that.

I wanted for all the world to sleep, but I would not ask Gregory for a charm now. I could not. I could not but lie on the shelf in the flickering candlelight and let the thoughts pass through my empty mind. My chest ached.

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