In the dark, no one hears you. In the dark, no one sees you. You are all alone, you are on your own. No hand extended to help you up from the ground, no soothing voices to guide you in the right direction, no friendly encouraging words to still the hot tears on your burning cheeks.

It was the first time he actually had to visit him in the office. Strangely enough, he found that it was precisely the same as in the academy where-from he had just graduated, the much famed Axis Academy. Precisely the same interior, the massive mahogany desk, the bookcases along the right hand wall, the marble fireplace with the bear skin...

Aenriques ascended the stairs to the grandiose building of London's National Gallery. The buzzing of Trafalgar Square slipped in with him but as the doors closed he found himself in the hushed silence of the museum. How come this was one of the places most sought out to make business exchanges between Agents, he had no clue yet, but he...

There was a quiet knock on the door and Matthew looked up. He had retired to his chambers, a small apartment-like constellation of adjacent rooms. The first was his study, furnished like a living room with couches around a coffee table situated in front of a fireplace. By the window stood a desk, a smaller version than that in his...

Gabriel had never appreciated the trips abroad with his father and the family company lawyers. He found the entire matter gruesomely tiring and extremely pretentious, but he knew his father had a reputation to maintain, and travelling abroad kept the dots connected and the lines hot between the houses of Darklighters. Officially there were 250...

It was the call that had led Lynne onto the investigation of the disappearance of the Preston girls. The audio file was forwarded to her inbox and as she listened to the recording, she understood this was important. Something in her heart always stirred when she was presented with a case involving children. She looked up the area in which...

Marilyn skipped across the lawn to reach the bushes behind the magnolia at the end of the garden. The humid air whipped around her bare thighs where the Easter-yellow halter neck dress could not reach. The stifling heat of the night flowed through her system, not a single vein responding to the oxygen. It was the stars that controlled her...

Like everything else in the house, the round, subterranean courtroom was nothing to brag about. Not compared to his own home, Gabriel thought as he, along with his father settled down at the upper seat, the seat of justice, Shade and Nathaniel behind them and Zacharias and Aenriques just below them. The silence was instant among the onlookers and...

They remained in the Nathaniel Residence the following day, overseeing the unravelling of the events. It appeared that a small fraction from the underground had started a riot. It all ended when Gestur arrived and the guilty were found hiding in their nests underground. Gabriel had a hard time feeling sorry for them as they were beheaded, the...