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pleasure?” Her face held a polite expression, which got a
slightly baffled one in return from the other Vampire.
    Eve
interrupted, having been there all night.
    “Two
things. The first is that Linda wants to get in on the animal blood production.
We need to kick that up a bunch of notches now. Second… You heard about Richard
Swerlin?”
    That got
a look that came with a glare. It was clear she hadn’t, but on the other hand,
she was also well aware enough of the politician’s antics to know it wasn’t
going to be a good thing. Luckily she was just now coming in through the door.
That way Eve wasn’t reporting way too late.
    There
was a hint of red to her eyes, but no fangs yet, as she glared at her worker.
    “No. I
haven’t heard anything. What did you do? Is he dead? It’s been coming for some
time, so I can hardly blame you, but he’s rather well connected in the Human
world, and may be missed.”
    Eve
grinned and shook her head.
    “Not
that I know of. Yet. He went on a major news channel and submitted to a bunch
of tests to prove his claim of being one of us. I haven’t seen it, but I guess
it’s all over the news now. We had people in all night about it.”
    Before
she could react with more than a scowl, Linda nodded, almost primly. Her face
looked younger than her clothing choices, Eve noticed. Almost like a child
pretending to be an adult. The woman no matter how old she really was, could
have passed for a teenager, with the right outfit on.
    “This is
true. I went home to see to my daughter, Bethany, and all the major news
outlets seem to be running clips. Constantly, like they did during the
terrorist attacks. This isn’t being taken as a joke either. The Bey, and Miss
Benson, put together a watch for the more youthful Vampires in our area, so
they may sleep and not be killed by the angry torch wielding villagers. There
probably isn’t a lot of danger, since most are careful these days, but I’ve
come to take the first rotation.” She waved to the map, which Eve passed over.
There were only six places marked out on it, so it wouldn’t take that long.
    About an
hour if the woman was going to drive, which was fine, most likely. Running
would be trickier, if people were actually going to be looking for people with
powers now.
    Lenore
glared at Eve, but didn’t snap at her openly. It was, she knew about not
getting a call about it all. Eve smiled at her however, not meaning it, knowing
that she might well be in for a beating if she wasn’t careful. The woman had
done it before, just to make a point.
    Trust no
one.
    She got
it, and really didn’t trust Lenore now. It was probably why she’d done
it instead of Edom doing it, Eve realized. So that she could still trust her
maker, without constantly worrying that he was going to betray her. The thing
was, eventually, he would. Everything in her life had told her that one.
Everyone turned on you, eventually. You just had to be willing to use them
carefully, and forgive the stupid things, so that you could go on.
    She
waved a bit toward Lenore.
    “You
told me to handle things, and only get in touch with you if something came up
that I couldn’t manage. I’ve been checking the situation out. Bey is going to
the Council, and Keeley is finding Richard, if she hasn’t already. Zack claims
that he isn’t behind this either, and so do the rest of the Greater Demons so
far. Not that they’d just fess up, if it really was their plan. We need to keep
that in mind. I haven’t heard back from The Mind Taker yet. That probably
doesn’t mean anything, however. He barely knows who I am. So, for now, what’s
being done is about what can be. There was no reason to ruin your night, in
particular. We don’t even really know what this is going to end up being, do
we? I keep expecting all the regular people to just drop it, and forget it was
even a thing.”
    She
still expected to be slapped down for it, because people loved to be kept in
the loop, which she