Chapter 38
Narishma hands us both a little bottle. "It’s the saliva of the vampire we’re looking for. Removed from the young ones and the waitress to break the compulsion You two both have good senses, so it might be enough for you to identify him from a distance."
We both nod, I know it’s enough for me, and Lala has pretty good senses too.
The work tablet reappears. "This is where he is currently, I’ll keep tracking him digitally, while I look for other signatures in the base. We’ll go together until we need to split up to corner him."
Silently we start moving down the hall. Not particularly hurrying, but with a pace and serious look that lets everyone know we’re busy. A state that fits right in around here.
The vampire doesn’t seem to be moving, which is strange he’s in a storage room of some sort though, so maybe he’s sleeping? In fact, he’s still there when we get up to the door. Narishma swings it open with a quick movement and I follow her inside, claws out, just in case.
What we find is not what we expected. We’ve awoken one very confused elderly man speaking Dutch. Of course it’s Dutch, it’s always Dutch. Lala starts shouting at him, trying to get him to calm down, and in a few minutes he does.
With a little trouble, due to his mental state, we find out that he was afflicted with a curse on his world, giving him the equivalent of Alzheimers. He was peacefully sleeping in his castle, when a portal must have formed and a clearance team from the base went to check it out. Finding his ornate coffin locked, they brought it back to base for analysis, leaving him lost, confused and determined that he’d been kidnapped.
Now that we’ve got the basics out of the way, we tried to determine why he’d turned the students, but even under compulsion from the Master Vampire Narishma, he couldn’t remember.
He rambled on about building his coven until it ruled the entire valley where he lived, so as best as we can determine, that’s what he thought he was doing at the time.