Caesura

Matthias is a scalpel, an instrument to get precisely what you want without hurting anything around it.

But even the sharpest knives need honing.

I was surprised to hear of his misstep. To let an alarm go off is an amateur's mistake, certainly not something that someone of his calibre would do. And then to get caught by that very amateur? Pitiful.

And to top it all off, he needs to call in the help of Winston to finish off some scientists? Pathetic.

It has been some time since I've been in the field, but time doesn't exactly affect me. I'm a vampire, after all.

'Yasmine, would you be so kind as to make sure that everything runs smoothly here? I have to go and run some errands,' I say, swinging by her suite. One of the many pros of owning a hotel chain, you can simply house your partners and employees wherever you want.