POV: Alternating - Valentina, Sibyl, Tom
Location: Various, Rookeries
Time: Same Week
VALENTINA CORVINO
I'm running messages through the Rookeries when I smell the blood club vampire following me. Not the first time. Won't be the last. Being dhampir makes me valuable target for vampire recruitment.
Dhampir means half-vampire. One parent vampire, one human. We're rare. Daywalkers. Stronger than humans, faster than full vampires in sunlight. Parliament wants us controlled or eliminated.
I choose neither. I run messages, stay independent, survive.
The vampire's been following for three blocks. Time to lose him.
I duck into an alley, climb the fire escape, cross rooftops. The vampire tries keeping pace but sunlight weakens him. I'm faster in daylight. Always have been.
I lose him near
