Radiance (Brotherhood of the Blade Trilogy #3) by Paludan Eve

Author:Paludan, Eve [Paludan, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Before we left for the airport in Zürich, we informally gathered in the great hall for a short briefing.

“I wish I could come with all of you,” said Lucian. He looked at me with intent eyes.

“But you have such an important job, Lucian. To hold the fort, here. Besides the fact that I don’t want you to accidentally get caught in the Southern California sunshine, we can’t leave the castle empty except for your wife and kids. It would be way too dangerous for them.”

“I agree.”

“Will you be ready for any enemy vampires if they come while we’re all gone?”

“Of course. This castle is well secured. I now know all of the devices and protections, including the vampire trap. I am fully armed. We’re safe in here and we have automatic feeding and watering for the animals in the barn. We’re on lockdown until all of you return.”

“Good man,” I said. “I’m so glad you are here, and Uta and the kids, too. I don’t know how we could have recovered as a group without you and your wife.”

“We are glad to be here. It was bad in our hometown and I was not safe there anymore. It’s good to know you have confidence in me, as far as the security of the castle, but I also know it will be tough to beat Nero without a vampire on this hunt with you. The ancient ones are very powerful.”

I nodded. “I know. You were made from one of them. Were you not?”

“Yes,” he said. “I know a lot. Perhaps I will write it all down for you, the misadventures of my past few years.”

“That would be good.”

Lucian sighed. “I hope you all come back safely.”

“Don’t worry.”

“Nero is not the last of the ancients, but he is the most evil one that I know of who still exists,” he said.

“Taking down Vlad and Delilah taught me just how weak even the strongest and fastest humans are against the ancients. What exactly makes them so strong anyway?” I asked.

“The closer they are to the origins of our species, the more powerful they are. Every time a vampire is made from another vampire, the species gets a little more diluted. It’s almost like clones of clones, with each generation weakening a bit. Like a twentieth-generation vampire still drinks blood, of course, but they are weak fighters.”

“Too bad we don’t have vampire genealogies.”

“It’s not like it is written down anywhere that I know of. But only the vampires created by the ancients are almost as powerful as they are.”

After Lucian said that, I thought of Samantha Moon, who had been created by an ancient vampire, one I had killed. She had rejoiced when I had told her, and had soared high in the sky with me in her talons.

Griff, our doctor, nodded. “That makes sense to me that clones of clones are weaker,” he said. “Not that vampires are clones, but they do have generations, of a sort, like who created who. Why have we never studied this?”

“Because there is no data?” I said.

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