Chapter 46: Another Chain to Hold

Humane, Lacuna Coil

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By most rights, Lilith shouldn’t care so much. It was Vladislaus’ idea that the Vatores move out of Forgotten Hollow, but Lilith had been all for it once she’d acclimated to the city. She enjoyed San Myshuno, and while she wasn’t at home in Spire very often, the move to Uptown wasn’t regretted either.

But the Hollow was his legacy. Forgotten Hollow was all Lilith had left to attest that once, Vladislaus Straud had existed. It was making her more defensive of it than she’d been expecting of herself, but perhaps she should’ve expected it.

Lilith paced around the dining room, trying to stay out of everyone else’s way. They were all doing something else, and she was here, pacing around and brooding slightly. That was maybe to be expected, too. Straud manor was trapped in a barrier she had no idea how to free it from, Vladislaus was still gone, and Elle and Inna hadn’t found anything terribly useful.

At least Aine was gone now, but it did beg the question of what exactly she’d been hoping to accomplish in Straud manor to begin with.

Unless she was after the power nexus…

“You’re going to break the floor,” Caleb said as he came in the dining room, raising an eyebrow and sitting down at the table.

Lilith snorted. “I don’t think I’ll actually break the floor,” she said. The floor was a little sturdier than that. If it wasn’t, they should sue.

“What’s going on?” Caleb asked, watching her.

“Aine’s gone now,” Lilith said. “But there’s still a barrier around Straud manor and I’m trying to figure out why.”

Caleb raised an eyebrow. “You sure care a lot about Forgotten Hollow now,” he said. “You were the one that was the most interested in leaving it and moving here.”

“I know,” Lilith said. “But sometimes you don’t realise how much something matters to you until it’s threatened, I guess. It’s hard to explain.”

Caleb breathed out. “Do you want to go back?” he asked.

Lilith looked over at him, pausing in her pacing for a moment, and then shrugged and went back to it. “I don’t think so,” she said. “It’s just that it means more to me than I thought it would. I mean, it was our home for a long time.”

Caleb snorted. “It wasn’t really home, Lilith,” he said. “Just something that looked a lot like it.”

Lilith slowed to a stop, resting her hand on the back of one of the chairs. “You sound like you hated it.”

“I like people, Lil,” Caleb said. “People are a rare and special sight in the Hollow.”

Lilith shook her head. “I guess. Isn’t that what super speed is for? Going anywhere you want to without having to bother with the logistics of getting there?”

“Something like that,” Caleb said. “I just don’t understand the attachment to the Hollow, that’s all.”

Lilith released a breath, and went back to pacing. “At the moment,” she said, “it’s more personal anyway.” She’d been chasing Miss Hell down for years, and now here she was, under a barrier squatting in their sire’s former mansion.

Like hell she was.

“Miss Hell’s involved, isn’t she?” Caleb asked softly.

Lilith glanced at him, and didn’t say anything before going back to pacing around. But the look on Caleb’s face suggested that she didn’t have to say anything. Of course Miss Hell was involved? What else would raise all of Lilith’s give-a-fuck at once? It was truly a very silly question, if one knew anything about Lilith at all.

Caleb released a sigh, and slid down in his seat. “You don’t have to chase her constantly like this,” he said. “Maybe it’d be best if you let it go.”

Instantly, Lilith stopped pacing, and turned around to look at him, her eyes narrowed in annoyance. He didn’t know anything if he thought she could just let it go. It just wasn’t that simple nor that easy, and Lilith wasn’t surprised by that reality in the least.

There were a lot of feelings and frustrations that went along with Miss Hell, not just what she’d done to Caleb. And there were times, actually, where it felt like Caleb was still listening to her, even if she wasn’t still here. He was acting just like he used to back then, Lilith thought, but she didn’t want to directly say that. Caleb would deny it until he was blue in the face, and it wouldn’t solve anything anyway.

“I can’t,” Lilith said. “If you think I can just let it go, I’m sorry, but you’re wrong and you don’t really understand why I’m doing it in the first place.”

Then, maybe he never really had. Caleb had a habit of eventually trying too hard to believe what she said. Thank god Morgyn was a person that existed, someone that loved him, actually loved him, and not just loved his suffering. Not that Caleb and Morgyn were doing great anymore. They barely spoke.

It was none of Lilith’s business, until Caleb talked to her and made it her business.

“She’s not a threat to me anymore,” Caleb said. “And even when she was, it wasn’t that bad.”

“Oh my ass it wasn’t,” Lilith said, immediately rounding on him. “You said that back then, too, and I know you like to believe people are always good at heart and mean well, but Miss Hell did not, does not, and never will. She was only interested in you because you were entertaining and easy to hurt. There was no love there. Now she’s squatting on Vlad’s manor and desecrating it. She doesn’t get to do one of those things and live to tell about it, let alone both.”

Caleb sighed, and slid down in his seat a little further. “If you say so,” he said. “I’ve got homework to do.” He stood up, shuffling out of the dining room and towards the stairs.

Lilith couldn’t help but wonder what was up with him.

===

“The barrier’s blocking pretty much everything,” Elle said, gesturing at the manor. It still had the barrier around it, though it was invisible as long as nobody and nothing crashed into it.

“We have no idea what they’re doing beyond it,” Inna added.

Lilith frowned, reaching down at pulling some of the grass out of the ground. It looked a bit off-colour, but she wasn’t sure if she was seeing things, or what that even meant. “Is anything changing?” she asked. Maybe there was something going on that might hint at what they were doing, even if they couldn’t outright sense anything.

“Sometimes flowers will sprout and bloom suddenly,” Elle said with a shrug. “Other ones die off with no warning or reason.”

Lilith released a sigh, dropping the grass in her hand. “Yeah, it sounds like they’re trying to use the power nexus.”

The whole world had invisible lines called ley lines. These lines, formed of electromagnetic energy, connected various significant sites across the world, many of them supernatural in nature. When a ley line crossed another one, it formed a pool of energy called a power nexus.

Forgotten Hollow had been formed on a power nexus, where not two, but six ley lines crossed each other. That was how the Hollow had remained protected for so long. Vladislaus was using the nexus to shield it from mortals that might see it to its ruin.

It wasn’t like vampires had nowhere else to go. Having or not having somewhere else to go wasn’t the point, however, not in this. Now, it was a simple matter of pride.

“What exactly would they want the nexus for?” Inna asked. “The darn thing’s so hard to control, I can’t imagine it’d be useful in anything they want its energies for.”

“Yeah,” Elle said, nodding. “It’d be a pain in the ass to control.”

Inna gave Elle a look, at the curse word, but she didn’t say anything.

“Our spellcaster friend has a personal reason to want to break magic realm’s defences,” Lilith answered. “I think she’s using the vampires of Forgotten Hollow to do so, because Vladislaus didn’t have the ability to stop her the way a coven alpha would.”

Of course, if she kept messing with vampires, sooner or later, Kassander was going to become very annoyed in her direction. Lilith wasn’t sure how long that’d take, it could even be why she left in the first place.

Lilith certainly had no personal interest in pissing him off, and then staying where he could find her, and if Aine had any sense, neither did she.

“So what now?” Elle asked. “We’re not exactly on good terms with the spellcasters, and if we’re dealing with one of their errant problems, it’s a little beyond us.”

Lilith frowned. Yeah, in a real fight, a vampire tended to barely scrape by against a spellcaster, if they were even lucky enough to manage that much. Lilith should be having a conversation with Ezio and Morgyn about now, but Lilith didn’t know if Ezio had even told Morgyn about Aine’s involvement in this mess.

Come to think, how much about this mess in general did Morgyn even know anyway? As far as Lilith knew, Ezio hadn’t told the blond literally anything about what was going on, and Lilith had the feeling that decision was just about to bite them in the ass.

“I have a friend,” Lilith said. “Well, my cousin technically. He’s good with barriers, I’ll get him over here and we’ll see if he can take this barrier down. In the meantime, I’m going to need more information about Miss Hell and Markus’ movements than we have now.”

“I’m not doing recon,” Elle said.

Inna looked over at her and frowned. “Aw, come on Ellie,” she said.

“You’re not doing recon either!” Elle said, looking pointedly at Inna.

Inna pouted. “I’m really good at recon! No one suspects the nice one!”

“Absolutely not,” Elle said. “It’s too dangerous.”

Lilith released a sigh and rolled her eyes. “If you two are quite done with this lover’s spat…”

“No,” Elle said. “But we can argue about it at home.”

“Maybe you ought to make friends with the Strangerville people,” Lilith said, raising an eyebrow.

“Why?” Elle asked.

“Oh, you know,” Lilith answered. “I’ve just heard they’re good at spying.” She’d also heard a few other things about the citizens of Strangerville and a few of those things were, how you say, disturbing, and that was concerning considering she was a lethal creature of the night.

But if not sending Inna into the lion’s den directly made Elle feel better, then maybe the people that lived in Strangerville would be useful, for learning how to gain information from someone without simply punching them in the face.

For the record, Lilith found that punching someone in the face often worked a little better. Maybe she just hit really hard.

“Alright,” Elle said. “We’ll look into it. Good luck getting that barrier down. What do we do when it’s down if we get it there?”

Lilith sighed, rolling her eyes and looking at Elle in exasperation.

Inna loosed a little giggle. “We murder, silly!” she said, and the happy way she said it almost wigged Lilith out.

===

“I haven’t broken a barrier in centuries, Lilith,” Drake said. “The last time I had to, Ezio and I were running from France.”

Lilith released a sigh. “I know that was a long time ago, and I’m not expecting miracles,” she said, sitting down in a chair. “I just need a little help here. If you can find a weak point at least, something, I think we can push it the rest of the way and break it.”

He may not even need to find a weak point, necessarily. It was possible that simply pushing against it the right way, or wrong way (which would that be? Lilith didn’t know), would cause it to weaken to the point Lilith and the girls could get it broken, even if Drake couldn’t.

“I’ll certainly see what I can do,” Drake answered. “Though I am curious why you’re so interested in bringing this barrier down.”

Lilith shook her head, crossing her arms over her chest, standing, and meandering around. Anymore, she felt a little restless, and she couldn’t say why that was. Like something was seriously wrong, almost, and she had no idea how to fix it or if she even could.

“Miss Hell and Markus Crow are squatting on Straud manor,” Lilith said. “When they first got there, Aine was leading them. I have reason to believe Aine killed Vladislaus and now she’s trying to take over Forgotten Hollow’s power nexus.”

Drake frowned. “What the hell would she want that for?” he asked.

Lilith shrugged. “My only guess at the moment is that she’s manipulating the vampires in the Hollow to give her the power to break into magic realm. That must’ve been what she was doing in the eighties.”

Drake considered it for a moment, and then shook his head. “That doesn’t quite make sense,” he said. “She should be able to get into magic realm just fine if she just walks into it.”

“You and I both know she’s most likely after the All,” Lilith said. “That’s the only reason anyone would want to break into magic realm instead of just walk in. But she’s smarter than that and should be well aware that she can’t handle the All itself.”

Drake nodded. “She wouldn’t be able to contain it,” he said. “No one can, as far as I know.”

“We’ve never had anyone really try,” Lilith said. “They get close to it, they burn out and die on the barrier that protects it, that’s as far as anyone’s gotten before. Aine’s unfortunately intelligent enough, she may be able to work around it and figure something out. I wouldn’t put it past her to have been working out how to get around the barrier for years now.”

Drake’s gaze darkened. “She’d be after one of the five families,” he said.

“Most likely,” Lilith said. “It’s the easiest way to break the barrier and not die on it. But finding one of those is unimaginably tricky. One of the Embers could probably break it. Drake, Ezio could break through it. He’s one of the most powerful spellcasters we’ve ever had.”

Drake shook his head. “I don’t think Aine would go that way.”

“If she was desperate enough, I think she would,” Lilith said. “But I don’t think he’d survive it.” Ezio was unfortunately relatively delicate, though he liked to pretend he wasn’t. Breaking the barrier around the All, he could do it, Lilith believed that, but it’d cost him.

Unsurprisingly, Drake didn’t look terribly pleased with this idea, glancing away to look at the floor.

Lilith breathed out. “Sarnai is awake, too,” Lilith said.

Drake’s head snapped up to look at her. “You’re joking,” he said.

“I wish I was,” Lilith answered. “Elle and Inna say she’s been awake for decades by now, but they didn’t start sensing her until now. I can’t say what she was doing all that time, but I don’t think it was anything good. Someone of Sarnai’s calibre stands a much higher chance of containing the All successfully, too. The only one that’d be better than her in that regard is probably either Surya or one of the Essairs.”

Drake gave Lilith a pointed look. “There was a vampire nearby a while back,” he said. “I only know because I sensed it, whoever it was didn’t get terribly close to the apartment complex at least, but now I’m starting to wonder if it was anyone we know.”

“You think that was Sarnai?” Lilith asked.

“I’m just not ruling out the possibility,” Drake answered. Then, he looked up at Lilith. “Are we saving Sarnai from Aine next?”

Lilith snorted. “I don’t think I could if I wanted to.”

===

School was something that still existed, unfortunately. It wasn’t like Lilith expected it to suddenly disappear, and they were reading an interesting screenplay in one of her literature classes, it was just an annoying break in everything else. Lilith would much rather spend the time figuring out this mess with the vampires and the evil spellcaster.

Lilith would really like to find Aine, and slam her face into a curb a few times. See how much of a problem she’d be after that.

It was just unfortunate that she was still haunting Morgyn. If the bitch was going to go, it would be better for everyone involved if she just went, and preferably, stayed went. Nothing turned out the way one wanted, though. It wasn’t anything surprising.

As Lilith wandered off to the library to hopefully get a little more work done on her paper, she noticed an energy signature she recognised wandering around seemingly aimlessly. Lilith headed towards the signature, wandering up beside Emilia as she looked around in befuddlement.

She turned around, catching sight of Lilith and unleashing a squeal.

Lilith tried not to laugh at her, but did smile rather widely.

“Wow, I wasn’t expecting to run into you again,” Emilia said.

“I do go here,” Lilith said.

“Oh,” Emilia answered. “What are you in?”

“Language and literature,” Lilith answered. “I want to be a writer someday. Well, I guess I’m technically already a writer, I have a few books that are published now, but I just don’t feel like a writer.”

Emilia smiled. “That sounds strange,” she said. “You have books published, but you don’t feel like a writer?”

Lilith snorted. “No one said I made any sense,” she said. “You look a little lost, though.”

“Oh,” Emilia started, “I was trying to find the dormitories, but I’m not entirely sure where they are. This map is either written in Chinese, or upside down, I’m not sure which it is.”

Lilith smiled again, and pointed at the dormitory towers. “You’ll want one of those,” she said. “You’ve enrolled in Britechester?”

“Oh jeez, thank you,” Emilia said. “And yeah, I didn’t get into Foxbury, but that’s okay. I like the way Britechester looks, it’s got a charm to it.”

Lilith laughed. “If by charm you mean it looks like it needs a renovation,” she said.

“No, really,” Emilia said. “I like the architectural style and the stone colour. The vines are a nice touch, too. I guess I’ll see you around from time to time if you go here then, huh?”

Lilith nodded. “Yeah, probably,” she said. “Supposedly all the science courses are in the same building, so most of your classes should be in the same general vicinity of each other. And Morgyn’s also taking biology here, so if you need help, you can ask the sage.”

Emilia tilted her head. “Morgyn didn’t get into Foxbury either?”

Uh, no, Morgyn did get into Foxbury. Then the blond had decided that Foxbury was too modern, or whatever it was Morgyn had said, Lilith forgot. It was ridiculous and a little stupid, that was what Lilith remembered of that conversation. “Well, um, he did,” Lilith said. “Just decided to take it here instead.”

“Oh,” Emilia said. “I guess I need to work on getting into the distinguished programme then.”

Lilith smiled. “I’m sure you can,” she said. “Things were just a little messy there for a bit, yeah?”

“Right,” Emilia said, nodding. “Well, if you’re going here I guess it can’t be too bad here then.”

Lilith snorted. “Am I the ‘terrible school’ judge?” she asked.

“Something like that,” Emilia said.

“Foxbury and the University of Britechester are in an on-going, ages old rivalry,” Lilith said. “Last I heard they even split Laurel Library, which is on neutral ground in Gibbs Hill, in two, so there’s a lobster side and a dragon side. This whole rivalry is a little much.”

“Yeah, sounds like it,” Emilia said, raising an eyebrow. “You’re not into that, are you?”

Lilith shrugged. “I’m on the soccer team,” she said. “Unfortunately, I get dragged into it from time to time.” Soccer was fun, but another one of those things that took up too much time for Lilith’s patience right now.

She’d get over it.

“Oh, you’re into soccer?” Emilia asked. “I’m terrible at keeping my balance and running in a straight line and not falling down the stairs… I’d be horrible at sports. I don’t even know much about them.”

Lilith snorted. “There’s not much to know about sports,” she said. “Most of the time, you just get the ball in the thing. Whatever the thing is. For soccer it’s a goal net on either side of the field, players can’t touch the ball with their hands unless they’re stopping the other team from getting the ball in the thing.”

“Oh,” Emilia said, and then laughed slightly. “That sounds like a very cliff-notes version, but it was easy enough to understand.”

“Good,” Lilith said. And then pulled her phone out and checked the time. “Well hey, I have to get to class,” she said. “I’ll see you around?”

Emilia nodded. “Yeah I should go up and meet my dorm-mates, I guess,” she said. “I’d like that.”

“Here,” Lilith said, pulling up her phone contacts and handing Emilia her phone. “If you don’t mind, I’d love your number.”

“Oh,” Emilia said, taking the phone, and then fished her own out, bringing up her contacts and handing it to Lilith.

“Heh, now if you get lost again, you can just text me,” Lilith said, typing her number into Emilia’s phone.

Emilia giggled. “Are you sure you want to deal with my terrible sense of direction?” she asked.

“Yeah, sure,” Lilith said.

“You sound like you’re used to taking care of someone,” Emilia said.

“Yeah,” Lilith answered. “My brother’s really terrible at managing by himself, and I just got used to it I guess.”

Emilia smiled, handing Lilith’s phone back. After a moment, Lilith handed Emilia’s back, too.

“Good luck with the dorm-mates,” Lilith said.

“Good luck with class,” Emilia answered, and then turned around and skipped off towards the dormitory towers.

And Lilith hoped everything worked out for her. She was a nice girl.

===

There was no point to this, it was just something to pass the time. Lilith sat on a chair, paintbrush running across the canvas in no particular way. Abstract art was more her thing, something that expressed the consistent jumble of befuddlement that was always in her head.

Some thought she didn’t have emotions, or that she did and simply didn’t understand them, but the truth was a little more complicated. Lilith felt them, they were just dimmer and easier to ignore than they seemed to be for others.

Until more recently, she didn’t even know that was a strange thing. She didn’t know her emotions were any dimmer or not than anyone else’s, and maybe it didn’t matter either way. She functioned fine, and maybe her memory was weak, and maybe she didn’t always know what she felt or why, but it wasn’t really hurting her, either.

Lilith released a sigh, scraping the paintbrush across the canvas again. The first bills were about to be due, and Lilith was a little concerned they wouldn’t be able to afford it. But there were only three of them that lived here and ate actual food or felt the temperature changes, so maybe the bills wouldn’t be as bad as it felt like they should turn out.

She still wasn’t sure what to do with Caleb. He was never home anymore. Of course, Caleb had been in and out of their apartment in Culpepper before, he seemed to have somewhere besides university he was going, but he’d never said what. Usually, after an outing, which took for actual ever, he came home smelling just vaguely of stale cigarettes and burnt coffee.

It wasn’t any of her business. Caleb didn’t need a babysitter, she just wondered what he was getting into. He did have a habit of getting in over his head, and not knowing what to do.

Or worse, not knowing.

Lilith set the paintbrush in the glass of water, tilting her head at the canvas. The door opened behind her, and Ezio came in. She turned over her shoulder, looking at him.

“Hey,” she said. “Welcome home.”

“Thank you,” Ezio answered. “Painting something?”

Lilith turned back around to look at the canvas. “Something,” she said. “I have no idea what. My feelings, I guess, at least as far as I can guess at them.”

“Not a very strong feeling?” Ezio asked, shuffling over to stand beside her and look at it too. Whatever he thought remained behind passive grey eyes. He was very good at hiding his emotions when he wanted to do so. Lilith used to think it was kind of cool.

Now it was just worrisome.

“No,” Lilith said with a sigh. “I think I’m frustrated.” But of course, the feeling was somewhat fleeting, and she had no idea what to make of it. Maybe it was what she thought it was. Maybe, if it held still long enough for her to feel it, she’d find it was something else entirely.

“You’ll figure it out,” Ezio said, and then shuffled away towards the entry to hang his jacket on the coat rack.

“Hey, strange question,” Lilith said, turning around in her seat, “anything notable happen recently?”

Ezio glanced over at her, dropping his jacket on the rack, and then shrugged. “Well, Morgyn got attacked by a vampire a while back.”

Lilith sat up straighter. “Wait, what?”

Ezio loosed a huff. “Don’t worry, we chased her off,” he said. “But I don’t think it’ll be easier to chase her off next time.”

“What did she look like?” Lilith asked.

“Black hair, purple eyes, dark skin, she had a lot of tattoos,” Ezio said with a shrug.

“Sarnai,” Lilith said, slouching in her seat. “How did you two survive an encounter with Sarnai?”

Ezio looked perplexed and then raised an eyebrow. “Sarnai?” he asked. “I don’t know, she was after Morgyn, and ran when I showed up. Like she wasn’t expecting there to be two of us. Implies she was after not Morgyn, but a sage.”

Lilith frowned. “She was probably hoping to find one,” Lilith said. “If I’m guessing right, she’s after the All, and a sage could theoretically get her through the barrier around magic realm. The barrier around the All is another story, but one thing at a time I’d guess.”

Ezio sighed. “Yeah, I kind of had a feeling this was about the All.”

“I think she’s working with Aine, Ezio,” Lilith said. “Aine can’t contain the All, she’d know she can’t. But Sarnai’s thousands of years old, she’s one of the ancients. The only vampire that’s a better choice than her is Kassander and good luck with that.”

“Kassander could probably contain the All, you’re right,” Ezio said, sitting down. “If she’s working with Aine, though, then we have two different problems.”

“Three,” Lilith said. “I’ve also got Miss Hell and Markus Crow doing something in Forgotten Hollow, and I suspect they’re trying to command the power nexus well enough to allow Aine to use it to break the barrier around magic realm. Just in case Morgyn doesn’t come quietly.”

Ezio frowned. “Right, Forgotten Hollow was founded on a nexus, fuck,” he said, breathing out.

“Ezio, you realise you’re powerful enough,” Lilith said, “that you might be able to break the All’s barrier.”

Ezio looked up at her and snorted. “No I’m not,” he said.

“We’ll have to accept our differences on this one, because I really think you are,” she said. “Morgyn’s awfully powerful too, between the two of you, you could have the All at your knees in a few minutes I should think.”

Ezio reached up, taking his glasses off and rubbing the bridge of his nose. “So, be careful, is that what you’re trying to say?”

Lilith snorted. “I know better than to tell you to be careful,” she said. “You have a nasty habit of taking it as a challenge.”

“Hey,” Ezio protested. “You’re right, but you don’t have to say it.”

Lilith shook her head. “So we’ve got Aine to worry about, Sarnai doing anyone knows what, and Markus and Miss Hell.”

Ezio frowned, rubbing the bridge of his nose again and then sliding his glasses back on. “I can’t really help you with Miss Hell and Markus,” he said. “I don’t even know where Aine is, and if she’s smart she’s nowhere I can find her. And Sarnai seems to be after Morgyn. I’ll have my hands full trying to keep Morgyn from doing something stupid. The idiot’s not fighting at top performance either, thanks to the mess with Caleb.”

Lilith frowned. “You know,” she said, “there was a vampire messing with your head. Taking out Morgyn’s support system would mean taking Caleb out.”

Ezio shook his head. “He doesn’t feel like another vampire,” he said.

“They may be disguising their signature in his,” Lilith said. “He’s just so weird Ezio, I have a hard time believing that’s really him.”

Ezio looked up at the ceiling. “I can try and corner him and see if I can get anything off him, but I haven’t so far.”

“Raise mind-control wards?” Lilith asked. “Kassander’s Apollo has the ability to do that, right? He can teach you how I’m sure.”

“Probably, if I asked,” Ezio answered. “I don’t know when I’ll have the time.”

“Long as you don’t totally forget, that’s all I care about,” Lilith said, and then went quiet for a moment. Then, she shifted in her seat. “Ezio, if Aine really is behind this, you’re going to have to tell Morgyn that, whether you want to or not.”

Ezio looked away, towards the wall.

“Ezio,” Lilith went on. “Any threat to the All is Morgyn’s concern. And Aine was Morgyn’s mentor. He deserves to know the truth. From you.”

“I know,” Ezio said. “But for just a little longer, I want things to stay alright.”

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