I had just arrived at the closest bus stop to St. Vladimir's Academy, my fifth assignment since Drea's "conversion." This one was to be a general school Guardian. It was odd that they kept wanting me at schools as technically I hadn't even been in a school for a full year as a student since I was thirteen. Still managed to get my promissory mark though, and I've gotten a few molnija marks along the way. This seemed like a pretty easy way to make some cash. I mean do a few rounds, stake some moronic Strigoi, my biggest issue would be the idiot students, and that I was sure I could handle. My second biggest issue would be Guardian Rosemarie Hathaway, my half-sister through our father, and of course, Lord Christian Ozera, my Drea's second cousin on her mother's side…or at least he was anyway. For all tense and purposes she was considered dead.