The past is prologue, as they say. This was one of a handful of stories played out in this same setting with an almost entirely different cast of characters a few months ago. It’s included here as background to the current chronicle.
While the Primogen vet Louis, Eric and Luther for new roles as agents of the Prince, the Atlanta police investigate a series of brutal murders in the city’s downtown. The Primogen report the Prince’s theory that the suspect is a rogue neonate — possibly one of the many illegitimate Kindred coming out of the city in recent nights — and assign the three prospective envoys to locate the young vampire, find out what he knows, teach him about the Requiem and neutralize the police investigation. Meanwhile, Mr. Never — the elder who recruited Louis and Eric into the Prince’s service — demands his first payment of Vitae from Louis.
