You make it sound ridiculous.
Let them think we are ridiculous.Caricatures of the ancient Greek Gods.Not who we truly are, Balthazar said.I, personally, like to be underestimated.
Yes, I bet you do.All right.So Grayson is an innocent, potential fledgling and I am big, bad Weryn. What about everyone else?
Whatever our enemies think we are sounds best, don’t you think?Balthazar chuckled.
Ryder put an arm around his shoulders.“I wanted you to see them like this so you wouldn’t have any bad dreams.”
“Why did they want to hurt me?”Grayson cringed.
It was so inapposite to his character that Ryder almost laughed.
“Send him away, Weryn,” Fiona said with a bored wave.“I could teleport him back to your Palace or the dorms.But don’t let him see all of this.”
“Wyvern, I decide what my Childe sees.”Ryder looked at her archly.
He was really trying not to grin at this play they were acting in for the Sect members.It was quite the thing.
“Prince Julian, does not King Daemon wish to see these two intruders that we caught?”Caemorn asked, all precision and coldness.
“The king does not bother himself with these creatures,” Julian said with a bored yawn.He leaned against the wall near a series of niches.
Dani stood beside him.Her arms were crossed over her chest.She looked implacable.She hadn’t glanced at Grayson even once though Ryder knew she wanted to so desperately.
“They are both War Children,” Dani said.“I recognize them both from the War.This one,” she tipped her head towards the Siryn Vampire, “had an ability to sing a song that would shatter skulls.”
“How do you recognize the Mirryr Vampire?”Christian asked.“They’ve kept Weryn’s shape.”
“The Mirryrs pride themselves on hiding themselves in plain sight, but certain injuries seem to resist their power. We discovered this in the War.In this case it would be hard to see unless you dealt with this particular Vampire before given Ryder’s tattoos.But look here.”She tapped the top of the lion’s head that peaked out on the Mirryr’s left shoulder.“There’s a scar.”
Indeed, in the lion’s man, one could see a twist of white flesh that was not mirrored on Ryder’s shoulder.
“You recognize this Vampire by a scar?”Balthazar blinked.
“Yes, because I gave it to them,” Dani answered.“He pretended to be Nero to get close to me.He tried to gut me like a fish.But that’s not what happened.”
Grayson really didn’t like that,Balthazar said.Good thing he was looking sheep-like at your chest.I really think he might have crushed their skulls for that.
“Needless to say, I remember them,” Dani answered softly.“Very well.”
“I will finish what I started,” the Mirryr Vampire growled at her.
“You aren’t exactly in a position to follow through with that threat,” Balthazar pointed out.
“You will see!You will know our strength!”the Mirryr Vampire growled.
Grayson wants you to interrogate them, Ryder,Balthazar said.He will use his powers on them, but we must pretend that Dani is doing it.This was reveal much as they will think–
That our powers will trigger whatever trap has been set in those structures in their minds,Ryder said.And when that doesn’t happen…
They will begin to sweat, I think,Balthazar chuckled.
“It is appropriate that these are War Children,” Ryder said softly as swaggered over to them.He met both of the Sect members’ gazes.“You were made to die.And you were senthereto die.”
The Sect members glared at him.
“Dani, would you care to have some of your revenge against them?”Ryder asked her.
