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Later that evening, at the dinner table, a message came for Lord Cole from the interim high priest. The bodies of three men had been discovered deep in the woods, and one of them carried the mark of a vampire's bite.
A deafening silence fell on the entire room as the messenger whispered the message in a not so quiet manner. Lady Danbury looked up from her mashed potatoes with a stunned and terrified look, while Lord Cole simply stared blankly at the wall.
Between Adaria, Regina and Liana however, a horrified expression was passed between all three of them. It was clear that the news didn’t sit right with them, but everyone else brushed it off as them being stunned by the murder.
Even Rachel looked at them with a stunned expression, clearly realizing that the news connected to th
