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handed his brother the address. “I’ll ring him up, so he knows someone’s coming. Payment’s not a problem as I have an account.”
    His brother’s writing hand had changed over all this time, Hoyt noted. So much had changed. “Doesn’t he wonder why…”
    â€œIf he does, he’s wise enough not to ask. And he’s no doubt pleased to pocket the extra euros. That’s the coin here now.”
    â€œAye, Glenna explained it to me. We’ll be back before sunset.”
    â€œBetter hope you are,” Cian warned when Hoyt left him.
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    O utside, Blair tossed a dozen stakes in a plastic bucket. Swords, axes, scythes were already on board. All of the fiery variety. It was going to be interesting explaining things if they got stopped, but she didn’t scout out a vampire nest without going fully loaded.
    â€œWho wants the wheel?” she asked Glenna.
    â€œI know the way.”
    Blair checked the need to take control, climbed in the back, took the seat behind Glenna as the others joined her. “So, Hoyt, have you ever been in the caves? I don’t figure that kind of thing changes much in a few hundred years.”
    â€œMany times. But they’re different now.”
    â€œWe’ve been in them,” Glenna explained. “Magically. Hoyt and I did a spell before we left New York. It was intense.”
    â€œFill me in.”
    Blair listened, one part of her brain marking the route, landmarks, traffic patterns.
    In any part, she saw what Glenna described. A labyrinth of tunnels, chambers blocked with thick doors, bodies stacked like so much garbage. People in cages like penned cattle. And the sounds of it—Blair could hear that in the back of her mind—the weeping, the screaming, the praying.
    â€œLuxury vamp condo,” she murmured. “How many ways in?”
    â€œI couldn’t say. In my time the cliffs were riddled with caves. Some small, barely big enough for a child to crawl through, others big enough for a man to stand. There were more tunnels, wider, taller than I remember.”
    â€œSo, she excavated. She’s had plenty of time to make it all homey.”
    â€œIf we could block them off,” Larkin began, and Moira turned to him in horror.
    â€œThere are people inside. People held in cages like animals. Bodies tossed aside without even the decency of burial.”
    He covered her hand with his and said nothing.
    â€œWe can’t get them out. That’s what he’s not saying to you.” But it had to be said, Blair thought. “Even if a couple of us wanted to try a suicide run, that’s just what it would be. We’d die, they’d die. A rescue isn’t an option. I’m sorry.”
    â€œA spell,” Moira insisted. “Something to blind or bind, just until we free those who’ve been captured.”
    â€œWe tried to blind her.” Glenna flicked a glance in the rearview to meet Moira’s eyes. “We failed. Maybe a transportation spell.” She looked at Hoyt now. “Would it be possible for us to transport humans?”
    â€œI’ve never done it. The risks…”
    â€œThey’ll die in there. Many have already.” Moira scooted up in her seat to grip Hoyt’s shoulder. “What greater risk is there than death?”
    â€œWe could harm them. To use magicks that may harm—”
    â€œYou could save them. What choice do you think they would take? What choice would you?”
    â€œShe’s got a point.” If they could do it, Blair thought, if they could save even one, it would be worth it. And it would be a good hard kick in Lilith’s ass. “Is there a chance?”
    â€œYou need to see what you move from one place to another,” Hoyt explained. “And it’s more successful if you’re close to the object. This would be through rock, and we’d be all but blinded.”
    â€œNot necessarily,”