Outside…
A shadow crossed the compound walls in a blink and slipped out of the estate into the streets.
From one shadow to another. From a passing car's underside, to a streetlamp's base, to the narrow strip beneath a pedestrian's feet.
This method of movement was so fast that a distance which would normally take twenty to thirty minutes by car took her three.
Three minutes of uninterrupted travel through the city's veins of darkness, until she rose again, rebuilding from shadow into flesh at a distant corner overlooking the Orien family estate.
One of the 7 vampire families.
Then she dissolved once more.
…
Silvanna Orien walked through a dimly lit hallway.
Then, suddenly, the shadow beneath her feet deepened forcing her to drop instantly into a pool of darkness that opened beneath.
And like that, she was gone.
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The same occurrence repeated itself at the Ronnet family house, where the alpha of the clan had been taken without warning.
