Chapter 5
Morning greeted me far too soon, with a ringing room phone and Karl’s unhurried voice.
"Freshen up and grab your kit, we’ve got an adventure today"
I tried to process this random bit of information "What are you talking about? Adventure?"
"Yeah, new portal just opened 20 miles from here. We can discuss it over coffee. Just follow the smell and you can’t miss the dining hall."
Coffee. The magic word that makes early morning phone calls tolerable. With that in mind I dragged myself from this warm, soft and comfortable bed. Karl’s coffee had better be good.
Now showered and dressed in a combat friendly outfit of black leather pants, a light blue silk blouse under a black leather under bust corset and my favorite mid length leather trench coat I was ready to face the day.
Following my nose to the dining room, I was surprised to find Karl not alone. Instead he is sitting at a table with a very young looking female vampire and a male human in a black suit, who was wearing sunglasses indoors.
"Good, you made it. You remember Narishma from the meeting?" Karl nodded his chin in her direction in case it wasn’t obvious. "Her and her partner are the ones that found the portal. Unfortunately they’re both huge nerds and not combat specialists, so they’ve come to enlist our aid."
This brought an evil look from the human, and light laughter from the Vampire.