Elder Nicolas Saint’s POV Things are unfolding differently than I had anticipated, nothing about vampire hybrids was mentioned when I visited Oracle Delphi all those weeks ago. I have spent the last week watching over Cole, making sure that the combination of pain control medicine that Dr. Booker prescribed and my own healing abilities worked in harmony to keep his body calm. A calm body allows the body to accept the vampire venom and the transformation will be faster and with little resistance. All the ancient books that I have uncovered and read since Cole was bitten relating to vampire transformation, indicate that the transformation usually takes humans one agonizingly painful month. This transformation was also not a given once the transformation started, with sixty percent of

