I gasped. Blinked. Forced his words to unscramble themselves in a way that made sense. "What? But they chose me. I went to their mansion and..." Never had a conversation with any of them. Never even saw their faces. I forced a swallow, my throat suddenly feeling too tight. "Who were all those people?"

"People, some of them supernatural, hired to be the faces of the Senate when they had no real power over the slayer. The dark unknown wiped out the original members...thoroughly, in an ...