Chapter Six
“What are you doing here?” I exclaim as Claudia and Nero step out of the gate after me.
“I foresaw that you’d come out of this gate,” Rasputin explains in Russian, and Felix translates my biological father’s words for Ariel. “So we decided to greet you.”
Oh yeah.
I did see a vision where Rasputin told Ariel and Felix that he foresaw my arrival on Gomorrah. He even knew I’d be a vampire, and told my friends about it.
That conversation must’ve happened recently, and might explain why Ariel is looking at me so strangely.
“This is Claudia,” I say. “She’s Nero’s sister.”
Everyone examines Claudia with poorly concealed curiosity. Then they look at Nero, likely to determine a resemblance—which is quite obviously there.
“How about I tell you the story of her rescue as we walk t
