“I’ll just call the writer the prophet, so you know what I am saying.” Sylvie resumed, “This prophet kept seeing battles and saw the vampires. The battles probably got too close, or even exposed their so-called mountain. In my sights, a mountain be an obstacle or an actual hill. In this case, the st line is the key. This group must have lived almost like we did in Phantas. bine what I have seen with this passage, we firm the dryods were looking for somewhere to get away from the fighting, presumably because blood was not readily avaible.”

  Using her palms to work on Sylvie’s shoulders, Casey bit on her lip for a moment as a question formed. “Why would blood not be avaible?” Casey closed her eyes and sighed, the answer ing to her as soon as she asked the question. “Right, the war. Soldiers are a healthy portion of the popution, so taking women and older men off the street would be noticed.”

  “Pretty much.” Sylvie quietly firmed due to Casey’s magical fingers. “You have to be using blood, this feels too good.” Sylvie randomly chimed.

  “Nope. All me baby. My mother and I took lessons when I was in high school so I could help others oeam, she did it to help me.” Casey beamed as she spoke, “Sylvie, Sylvie…I remembered something!”

  Shifting just enough so that she could kiss her partner, Sylvie pnted her lips firmly on Casey’s. “I knew you’d adapt beautifully.” She nuzzled against Casey’s neck before turning bad settling back against her partner. “I swear you were made to be a vampire, Casey. Where the rest of us gh a tough time…just to recall our living life, you pulled it from the haze within two days.”

  “I think it is because of all the time I spent with Vivienne and Faye.” Casey stopped massaging her girlfriend momentarily and reflected owo close friends. “I do miss them, Sylvie. I also think Vivienne would be happy to see that I have transformed.” Pressing her fingers along Sylvie’s shoulders until she found a knot, Casey kissed the spot and began w once again. “Well go on, before the water gets cold.”

  Pressing the button to let the water drain, Sylvie set the book on the floor beside the tub then turned on the faucet and twisted the knobs until she matched the steamy flow Casey started. “There, that should keep us warmer, not that we o be warm.”

  “Enough of that, Missy.” Casey leaned forward and stopped the drain and turned off the water. “That is my job, you rex and read. Let me rejuvenate your squished mind, rolling pin..remember?” Casey ughed.

  Allowing Casey to take charge of her little project, Sylvie nodded and picked up the old book. “Alright, so we know they wao relocate because of the war.” She flipped to the numbered passage.

  “...liquid metal captured from the Earth swirls ial bins,A ring of irht round and thin,promise of peace beyond,a nd where darkness gone…”

  “Liquid metal.” Casey fidently spoke. “Chemistry, that is mercury.”

  Studying the yout and w a bit longer, Sylvie affirmed what Casey mentioned. “Yeah, I am certain that is the right answer.” She ran her fingers over the heavy penned ink, and got a fsh of a dle-lit room with a slender haly and slowly writing out the passage. Sylvie shook her head to clear the vision and bit on her lip. “The line is pretty easy, given my vision too. The ring is referring to the portal they made.”

  “I felt that..” Casey softly urged. “Taini, what happened, what did you see?”

  Someset that she didn’t immediately tell Casey what she’d seen, Sylvie lifted her fingers and wiggled them so Casey could see the faint ink stain. “I saw the prophet writing the words, slow deliberate almost like he or she was having the vision as they were writing. Astounding, simply marvelous. It’s vague enough to mean two things.”

  “Oh?” Casey stammered and quickly grabbed Sylvie’s hand and pulled the fio her lips and gave them a quick kiss. “For mood luck.” Casey looked over Sylvie’s shoulder. “Is it on for double meaning?”

  Still trating o two lines, Sylvie shrugged. “Depends on the vision and who the visionary is. When I raricur Venus, I did it to get my regurs to e babsp; So it was a half-truth.” She paused and tapped on the page, “I have to sider that I saw whoever it was, writing it. “It could mean a couple of things. The obvious is what the dryods wanted. Pead a pce to settle and live in harmony with humanity. their idea of banbsp; That would be the promise of peao darkhey took it to mean that their demons would be removed safely to not harm Earth.” Sylvie took a breath so she could keep talking, “My vision when I left you wanting…” Sylvie giggled then tinued, “They’d po go beyond and purge their demons and e babsp; Groups of five.” Rubbing her thoughtfully, Sylvie added, “My vision sed to Franco frantically closing the door with the seals. The Shadewraiths were all over him and his group of five. So I don’t know if the others were successful. We guess that some of them were successful because of the number we are fag now.”

  “We will know more when we check out the pce where the ring was, I hope.” Casey kissed Sylvie’s shoulder. “I am scared to ask this, but what else could it have meant?”

  “Truth?” Sylvie sucked in a deep breath and enjoyed how her dead chest expanded and filled for a few seds. “Peace also meah, and the st part..darkness gone, could mean sunlight.” Sylvie opted to scoot forward ier and turn around so she could see Casey. “That is an oute I really don’t want to think about.”

  Smiling since she could see the lovely dy she devoted herself to, Casey held up her finger again. “Don’t move, I have another idea. I will be right back.” Casey slowly stood up aed the tub, then darted off into the house.

  With the sed passage mostly uood, Sylvie flipped to the third just as Casey returned. “Great timing.” She noticed that Casey had one of her dining room chairs and a set of wooden chopsticks. “Should I even ask?”

  “Just put the book on the chair, prop it up with one of the sticks and turn the pages with the other.” Casey simply stated and made her way bato the tub then pulled Sylvie to her. Log her legs around the smaller vampire, Casey resumed searg for knots. “I know it will work, I did something simir in college when I o look at multiple books for research.”

  Without aation, the master vampire did as her progeny asked and raised her eyebrows in fasatiohe book did exactly as Casey said it would. “Iive. Now I get a little wet with you.” Feeling Casey’s long legs around her small waist, Sylvie smiled brightly ahe passage.

  “...prudence provides a sed sight,demon and shadow inside wake up and take to the air,moon and sun bare bracers and cure our blight,an eclipse to reform mercury the path is sealed by the pair…”

  “That one doesn’t flow as easy, Sylvie.” Casey purred and winked as she started gently squeezing her lover's breasts. “This is medial.” Casey pulled gently until both of Sylvie’s ample rounds slipped free from her hands. “It’s so I don’t start going crazy smelling baked apples.” She winked pyfully.