the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Sorry, we've got ghosts.

I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.

I know,I can smell it, too.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.