Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires) by Anne Rice

Author:Anne Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Vampires, Horror, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, General & Literary Fiction, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9780099271086
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1999-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

"I am sick," I said. "I need a chair. I have enemies to worry about."

"I'll protect you from your enemies," said the mysterious tall man in the toga.

"How can you? You don't even know who they are. "

There came a silent voice from the tall man in the toga:

Your brother Lucius betrayed the entire family. He did it out of jealousy of your brother Antony. He sold out everybody to the Delatores for a guaranteed one-third of the family's wealth and left before the killing began.

He had the cooperation of Sejanus of the Praetorian Guard. He wants to kill you.

I was shocked but also not about to let this person overwhelm me.

You speak just like the woman, I said silently. You speak right to my thoughts. You speak like the woman who said to me in my head, "It is I who summoned you."

I could feel his shock at this. But I too slumped as if dealt a mortal blow. So this creature knew all about my brothers, and Lucius had betrayed us. And this creature knew.

What are you? I fired off to the mind speaker, the tall one. Are you a magicians No answer.

The Priest and Priestess, unable to hear this silent exchange, pursued their course.

"This blood drinker, Lady Pandora, he leaves human victims on the steps of the Temple before dawn. He writes an old name in Egyptian on his victims with their blood. Should the government discover this, our Temple might be held accountable. This is not our worship.

"Will you recount again for us - for our friend here - your dreams? We must protect the worship of Isis. We did not believe in these old legends... until this creature appeared and began his killing, then comes out of the sea a beautiful Roman woman who speaks of similar beings who are in her dreams."

"What name does he write on his victims?" I asked. "This blood drinker. Is it Isis?"

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