Epilogue
Kain and the brethren closed together to form an almost tight circle in the centre of the throne room, again. They stood almost shoulder to shoulder, the gaze of every vampire in the hall upon them as they stood as silent spectators. The music had stopped when Kain had risen from the throne and the brethren, instinctively knowing what this meant joined him as he stepped into the centre of the room.
All eyes were upon Kain as he raised his glass goblet, filled with the finest blood high into the air. His voice rang clearly through the hall, "To the empire…at last," he proclaimed his toast. The brethren raised their glasses and repeated the line followed by a mass of applause and cheering from the vampire filled hall.
Kain returned to his throne and watched the dancers take their places. Meg and Raziel joined him; Raziel standing on his right and Meg at his left. "No interruptions this time Raziel," Kain warned. Raziel merely smiled and watched his daughter dancing with Dumah who had beaten Rahab to her.
Kain chuckled to himself and reclined in the throne; now finally he was the Lord of Nosgoth.
End