Two hours later found them all in the extensive library searching through the many biographies and books on the well known millionaire; Roberto Dalmenno.

So far, the best they got was that he was very rich, tremendously powerful and not someone to be messed with. His houses in were in Naples, Paris, Rome and Bordeaux. His organization was his and only his. He called his men 'The Shadow Knights' and he had, apparently got eight wives, though no one really knew whether this was true or not.

They had agreed to search different sections of the library (Which was huge and had over three hundred books that could possibly have answers in them on Vesorion and another fifty odd on the 'Shadows of the Night'. All of them written specially about this. This, Van Helsing decided was the most boring task in the world, but with no other way to single out the ones they wanted, they had been forced to read the lot. Van Helsing hoped the brides had done better than he had; he had fallen asleep after only five minutes reading those great tombs. Anyway, time for lunch and pray to god that the girls had found something. Anything.

Lunch was laid in the bishops private quarters and it looked lovely, the brides were already sitting down, wearing long flowing dresses in bright autumnal colours and talking happily.

"Am I late?" asked Van Helsing, knowing perfectly well he wasn't.

"No" said Misha, looking him up and down, then asked suspiciously: "Why does your hair resemble a birds nest?"

"Lets just say, that a three foot thick book is not the best cushion" said Van Helsing dryly.

"What?" they cried.

"You fell asleep?" said Marishka, a mixture of annoyance and disappointment in her voice.

"Whose fault is it that I haven't slept in three days?" reminded Van Helsing.

"Oli and Cori's?" suggested Aleera.

"Partly" said Van Helsing. "Partly yours and Mariska's"

The response from the guilty parties was universal. "What did we do?"

"You, my dears, were fighting non-stop all through the 'Road trip from hell'" said Van Helsing.

"Oh" said Olivia in a haughtily, indignant voice. "The nerve, the audacity to accuse me of 'Keeping him awake' oh!"

This made them all laugh and then the servants came in and the bishop arrived, the rest of the dinner passed in companionable silence, the girls and Van Helsing were completely worn out and the thought of more book searches! Van Helsing was sure he would rather be murdered (painfully) than read another book!

But the subject of books had to be brought up again.

"What did you lot find?" asked Van Helsing.

"Roberto Dalmenno is rich, powerful and not a nice person" summarized Verona. "Vesorion is mostly a pawn, he works for people, he has no real power of his own and relies on the people had works for to give him the muscle power"

"Overall, both are complete and utter bastards" said Aleera.

"Yes, they don't sound nice, do they?" mused Van Helsing.

"And we are going to spy on one of the 'Bastards'" said Misha.

"Yes" said the bishop thoughtfully. "It is a dangerous game you will be playing, traitors deaths at the hands of Skull are not pleasant"

"So you want is short, sweet and sassy, huh?" said Marishka smoothly. "I think we can manage this" she added.

"You're a trained assassin, Countess Draguilia, am I right?" asked the bishop.

"We all are" said Verona. "We were trained as soon as we were bitten, we have never really had to use it though"

"Right" said the bishop. "You will of course be fully trained by our nights and briefed on what you want to try and get out oh him, Okay?" asked the bishop.

"Yeah" said Van Helsing. "So when do we meet Jenica Marattina and Giordano Callath?"

"They won't be back from their current assignments for about three days, then they will need to rest, they were sent to get something and will be exhausted, I'd say, five days, ish"

"Right" said Van Helsing. "So you guys" he turned to the girls. "will be able to go shopping, see the sights and have some fun"

"Yay!" the all yelled.

At that moment the doors to the dining hall crashed open and a young woman staggered in, she was covered in blood and sunk to her knees weakly, her face a mask of pain. Lifting her head slightly, she whispered: "My Lord, I have very important news for you" and collapsed on the floor, face down.

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