Chapter 108Jonah was gazing up at the amber cylinder when Stanza came up behind him.
"I told you everything would work out, didn't I?" she said, and then she kissed his shoulder. "We did it."
Jonah nodded at the figure in the faraway cylinder. "He did it, you mean. Whoever he is."
"Him?" Stanza wrapped her arms around Jonah and hugged him. "He's Lazarus."
"Lazarus?" Scowling, Jonah squinted at the cylinder. "Not the Lazarus?"
"The one and only. The Progenitor." Stanza rested her head on Jonah's shoulder. "Lazarus who was raised from the dead. Lazarus, first of the vampires. Lazarus, soul of Empyrea."
Jonah's mouth fell open as he stared at the cylinder. "His remains are powerful enough to cast out feratu? Hundreds at a time?"
"Strictly speaking, those aren't his remain
