*A few weeks later…*

As spring finally started creeping its way back into the world, all leaders of the human realm received an invite to the Vymenian Summit hosted by the Arvenswal Empire.

That included me.

For the first time, a vampire would attend this summit in its thirty plus years of existence and I had days on the road with Velador to contemplate how my pride would deal with their prejudice.

Velador and I have remained close since our talk about having ...