November 20, 1800. 5:22 a.m.
upstairs hall
"Hey!" Mika called. "Everybody come out here!" Thanks to a trip to Geneva a week ago, the rooms had been refitted with black curtains, allowing everyone to move out of the basement.
"What the hell? Are we being attacked or something?" Carid's annoyed voice asked as the doors opened and Mika's allies came out to glare at her.
"No. But I just didn't feel like waiting until tomorrow to do this." she pushed Ana forward. "This is Ana. She's my ghoul. We were supposed to get ghouls from the councl. But the council is collectively dead. So we're gonna use her for message conveying and such, alright? And no, I didn't contact anyone. She and my sire came looking for me. But he left, and he's not going to tell anyone anything; he hates the Society as much as I do." she paused. "Alright, that's it."
"Great." Sugar muttered.
"Well, at least we have a ghoul..even if it's only ONE ghoul..."
"One is enough." Amy said, before turning back to her room.
Everyone was back in their rooms in a matter of moments. The sun was rising fast.
Mika turned to Ana. "Well, you've got the whole day to yourself. I should get in. Amy will probably tell you what you're doing with her crystal thingy tomorrow night." she turned to go to her room.
"Yes Master." Ana responded obediantly.
"Stop calling me that!" Mika shouted over her shoulder as she vanished into her room.
Ben flopped down on his bed, more than a little miffed. "Why her ghoul? How come she could bring her own ghoul?"
"Shut up." Sobek grunted, already under his sheets.
"But why?" Ben refused to shut up. "Why do we have to use the Gangrel's ghoul? Why's she the only one allowed?"
Sobek sat up and glared at his roommate. "Because she's the only one who came, you moron! You heard the Gangrel. Her sire and ghoul came looking for her. I didn't notice any of your precious retainers coming back to see if YOU were alright." he sneered, words cutting like a knife. With that, he snuffed out he gas lamp that was still burning on his side of the room and plunged them into darkness.
But he wasn't to get any sleep for the next hour or so. The sound of Ben crying quietly on the other side of the room kept him up until the Toreador finally wept himself to sleep.