A Sinister Negotiation

While Zane and Angelica were spending some quality alone time together, a far more important meeting was taking place within the city of Carson. Standing where her abominations had been turned to ash was none other than Eliza, who appeared to be in a rather foul mood.

She was inspecting the ashes of her most elite troops, pondering about something peculiar. Normally, the blood crystals within her servant's brains would have survived. Yet there was nothing here, nothing but ash, that is.

Eliza knew that her prey did not have time to loot the remains of her fallen servants, and thus it was peculiar that they had suddenly disappeared. She did not want to believe it, but she was beginning to genuinely consider the possibility that her mother was aiding these humans for some reason.