I knelt beside both of them. "Hi, baby Julie. You gonna let Uncle Ran give you your bottle?"
Ran chuckled. "Kim, I'll be B. J.'s protector, but I think I'll leave the feeding and diaper changing to you and Paul."
I'm glad I had a "protector" in Athena. Her tip saved me from the Elder Council, which finally completed its investigation of me. I'm obviously still among the undead because the Elder Council did not carry out its wish to rid me from the Vampire Nation.
When Malarias returned from Spain and I was able to give testimony to the Elder Council, it saw something intriguing within my memories. They saw I was privy to more than the secret of day walking Vampires. They knew that I knew the Elders willingly sacrificed Master Vampires to pointless deaths by initiating them to an Elder
