Grace watched the formation below for a few more seconds, her red eyes slowly moving between the barriers, the guards, and the black box protected at the center of the ruins. The group was too large to be treated as a coincidence and too organized to be merely an improvised alliance between Ritual participants.
This was an operation.
She closed her fingers around the short blade in her hand, then spoke without taking her eyes off the clearing.
"I will take the right. You take the left."
Victor glanced at her from the corner of his eye.
"That direct?"
"Yes," Grace replied. "We are going to exterminate Jake's group in a single attack."
Victor stayed silent for a moment, then looked again at the twenty-five vampires gathered in the ruins. Most of them had not yet realized they were being watched by two people who, for completely different reasons, were very bad for the health of anyone trying to set up an ambush.
He smiled faintly.
"You want to do a joint ice attack?"
