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The flicker of candlelight painted shifting shapes across walls lined with iron-bound vials and grimoires whose pages were stained a rusty brown. Elara’s focus was a needlepoint, her hand steady as she drew a final, glowing rune onto the flagstones. Sylvana lounged nearby, a study in relaxed lethality, her crimson eyes drowsy in the warm gloom. The peace was a held breath. Then Sylvana went rigid, her gaze snapping toward the blackness beyond the manor windows. ‘Someone’s bleeding,’ she whispered, the words like a shard of ice. A hint of fang glinted. ‘A young vampire. Has fallen.’ Elara felt her magic surge in response, a hot tide beneath her skin. Not a word passed between them. As one, they rose—the mage and the vampire queen—and melted into the waiting darkness.