Sylvie looked up from her hands and heard Casey’s request, ahe same order through her tact lenses. “It should be running whe there.” Sylvie crawled over Casey’s sprinting body and held onto her back, watg their escape. “I have a bad feeling, this is too easy.” Sylvie felt Casey e to a plete stop and she looked over her partner's shoulder. “I had to say something.” She hopped down and looked at the lone vampire soldier covered in crimson Kevr armor.
Sniffing the air, the soldier pulled off her helmet a her long hair drop to the base of her shoulders. “You two aren’t from here. Your blood isn’t diluted like the others.” She licked her lips and wiped a bit of saliva from the ers of her mouth. She poio the battlefield, “Those are vampires in the smallest of terms. They serve because they have no choice.” She ughed. “You two would be a great addition to Master Keenan.” She rubbed her for a few seds, “I don’t think he’d mind if I purified my own blood with a little of yours.” She began walking and drew a metal stake with wires that seemed to curl around the metal and into the stake itself. With her other hand, She lifted a small crossbow and fired a tiny bolt where it pierced Casey’s leg, and the newborn dropped to one knee, g in pain.
Sylvie’s third eye opened in record speed as it had done in many prior battles when she was much younger and less wise. Back theacked on instind her vision alone. These days, she waited for the meaning, like she did with the dog tags during the Crow Farm enter. Sylvie saw what the Crimson guard was going to do a fra of a sed before she did it. The aggressor reached for the button oal stake, and Sylvie thought to Code.
-Draitery.-
Sylvie heard the baton-stake power down as soon as she pressed the button. Sylvie side stepped a luhat would have driven the point with perfect accurato her heart.
-e on, show me a weakness. She’s a battle-hardened soldier now.…I haven’t fought fes.-
Sylvie sehe vampire recover and spin, hoping to catch the older woman unaware of the on headed for her fabsp; Sylvie crouched and spun her leg out, catg the soldier dy off guard, sendio the ground in a loud thud.
Sylvie didn’t sed think about the situation and pounced quicker than a panther on her prey. Her vision highlighting the Crimson woman’s jugur, Sylvie’s fangs locked in pd she drove them true.
Yelping in pain, the soldier swung up with her hard Kevr fist and hit Sylvie as hard as she could squarely in the fabsp; When the punded and broke her hand, she screamed even louder. “Wh…what? I ’t be hurt…”
Sylvie spit the blood that she’d collected in her mouth all over the ground. “You're tainted, your blood is useless, almost useless to you..” She balled up her fist and puhe woman in the face breaking her jaw with ease. Sylvie’s vision faded as the short battle pleted. “You are about ten years old…and know nothing except nightly killing.” Sylvie grabbed the woman and shook her, “Age, you dumb bitbsp; Age, that is why I do this.” Sylvie reached doulled the woman’s kneecap from her body and tossed it into the trees.
Pushing the arrow through her leg, Casey mao get the little dart free and began regeing immediately. “I will be okay, Sy-” She stopped in time to see the yellow-red in her lover's eyes and withe brutality firsthand. hing Casey knew she heard an old war cry emit from Sylvie. She watched her lover paint her fa patterns with the girl's blood and grabbed a handful of the woman’s hair, digging her cws into the screaming soldier's scalp and yanking a strip of flesh and hair from the screaming vampire. Once her scalp had been revealed, Sylvie peeled away the bone and exposed her enemy's brain. Casey guessed that the cries that Sylvie started were her a spirit calls. “Taini, Here’s the stake, Taini.” Casey hahe metal-covered wood to her partner and stood babsp;
Taking the stake, Sylvie hammered the point into the woman soldier’s chest with one fist. Sylvie stopped ting long enough to produce a lighter and jam little sticks into the woman at different points. “The air spirits judge you, unworthy.” Sylvie lit the kindling and dropped the woman’s scalp on her chest, then looked to her partner. “Let’s leave before I have to do that again.”
Moments ter the two had gotten back to a running motorcycle and took off, leaving the wretched site behind them. Casey adjusted her microphone and spoke softly to her shaken girlfriend. “You asked back there why Vivienne doesn’t stop that?” Casey heard the engine rev louder as Sylvie nodded. “I think you know that answer, my angerball.” Casey waited for a rea from Sylvie that came in the form of a grunt. “Vivienne wouldn’t stop it because it is in lih her vision. She doesn’t care. She’d get involved if it messed with her ability to fun, or if Faye wanted her to.”
Shifting the bike into its highest gear, Sylvie pushed the engine close to its redline. “Casey, they are farming blood. The only good thing is the blood is so weak, there is not much value in it.” She paused, “It’s almost a closed blood pool.”
Thankful that she didn’t see anyone following them either on the ground or in the air, Casey sighed a breath of relief. “Alright. I have seen that terrible thing, let’s focus on the ledger and the diary. Do you have any thoughts oter, angel-dove?” Casey snickered.
Enjoying the rush of the cool autumn air flowing over her body, Sylvie smiled and spoke gently into her microphone. “Angel-dove? Is that the best you have now? Tisk-tisk.” She revved the engine for more speed, and saw the exit sign for Stratton Lake. “We have ten more miles, my carmel-apple.” Sylvie made sure to lick her lips loud enough for Casey to hear.
When her heart pattered for a sed, Casey felt a warm tingle bounce all over her body. “Mmm, thinking of you bobbing for my apple…my word…” Casey took a baited and shaky breath, “...I have never been this horny in my life. See what you do to me, my cupid-cutie.” Casey tapped Sylvie on the shoulder, “I was just warming up. So I had o name.” Taking a moment to rub her lover’s shoulder Casey again asked, “What’s the pn? You didn’t ahat, but mao get me riled up.” Casey moaned and pushed her cws lightly into Sylvie’s shoulder. “Tease.”
“Amos said she was ready for any attempt to steal the items back, whie suggests that something is on a sort of drop switd will send the data all over. Fighting that should be the top priority.” Sylvie took the exit for Stratton Lake and called up Code. “Code, did you hear what I was just saying? If so, is there anything you do to interrupt services while we are onsite?”
“Affirmative, All speech is recorded for possible future use, uurned off. The area is trolled by a single pany and I do not detey satellite uplinks in the area. More will be known as roach 780 Madison Circle. Querry?” Code went silent and resumed the route on Sylvie’s HUD.
Upon seeing the little question pop up on her s again Sylvie finally asked the AI, “Why are you spelling query incorrectly, Code?”
“Uo process, stand by.” Code respoly.
Ign the ongoing fusion from Sylvie’s tiny puter, Casey spoke up. “Alright, so you think the only preparations are about getting the data out? What are the odds she is sitting in there with holy water and maybe a few stakes, or even a crossbow like we just witnessed?”
Slowing down to a normal pace for the area, Sylvie followed the little e lio a wooded subdivision. “I would guess pretty good, given she knows Amos and the whole deal with Phantas. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amos had threatened Miss Grant.”
