#vampire!jayn

[dhampiravidi]

blood is thicker than water

Of course she refused when Baghra asked to meet her. Jayn had left the Morozova Crime Family in the 1800s after faking her death (with the help of a witch friend). She left Europe for the US & made a home there, easily sliding into the modern age (gosh, computers were nice), where she worked as a high-school Zemeni teacher. Even though Jayn's home was warded, Baghra had managed to send one of her thralls to her former employee, explaining that the old woman wanted to meet. Jayn thought it was a trap, so the Morozovas could tie up a loose end. Then Baghra came in person, saying that Aleks had been taken to Fjerda after a meeting to discuss a possible ceasefire had turned into an ambush. Jayn couldn't fathom how someone as powerful as Aleksander could have been taken, until Baghra described the sudden burst of light, which had scalded the vampires hidden in the surrounding area. Clearly, the Fjerdans who called the undead & all magic-users "unnatural" had done something hypocritical.

So Jayn went to Fjerda. Her background was clean, she knew; that being so was partly what'd kept the Family from finding her for so long. Still, she needed a good cover. She had contacted some of her relatives in Novyi Zem, explaining that she needed to get in & out of the country with a friend within the next week or two. Thanks to her occasional correspondence with them (which included a decent sum of money), they were happy to help. She was greeted in Fjerda by her several-cousins-down cousin's people, who were helping her pose as a relative of the main diplomat of Novyi Zem. They'd also gotten her a place to stay, though she'd also rented a room in a cheap place just in case she needed somewhere to hide.

Then the real work began.

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