Ambrose creates spirit-link disruptor discs to slap on the Crosshairs people. Sonya looks into a vampire civil conflict while Aila works with Dreamsoft to create attack plans against her friends.
Lady Alison takes of, done with the case for the moment.
The Giovanni have the local vampires upset. They're walking on the edge of breaking cover with the humans. It's something to do with dead bodies. Betting that someone's already noticed something, Sonya tracks a reporter who went missing after following leads at two local funeral homes where personal effects had gone missing and bodies had been mishandled. To human perception, it looks like the Mob was involved.
The Missing report was trying to tie this into a recent rash of vanishing children. The number of missing children corresponds to the number of dead bodies missing. Twelve and twelve, so far. Children have been vanishing across the Midwest, but he traced them all to Chicago, then NY, then eastern Europe. This guy did good work.
Sonya forwards that and Rastov's dossier to Sergei's people and to Jared. Then it's off to Hawai'i!
At the VA chanry, they set up traps and mines on Aila's and Jonas' lead. Ambrose hands out a few of those spirit-disruption discs.
The attack is nine Crosshairs people, two HITMarks, and four Iterators. Sonya and Olesya ninja Iterators and maul them. Ambrose works on an effect to disrupt their laser pistols. Only one Crosshairs guy makes it through the traps barrage. A HITMark tosses a grenade at the chantry, which vanishes and reappears embedded in its ass. Kaboom! Ambrose shoots a disruption disc at the final Crosshairs guy, who dodges, so Aila grabs him by the face and plants him on the disc, stunning him. Sonya mauls another Iterator, who tries to call for help, but Rey hushes him. Then they crash the last couple. Adepts take the surviving Iterator for interrogation.
It's time for surgery! The Crosshairs kids have DEI-like implants, which need to be the first things out. RF and Jared take care of it.
Ambrose makes arrangements for a hospice to take care of the kids while they recover. Aila's startled to learn the Traditions have such things. It's a little unsettling to think you need an entire infrastructure to care for the mind-fucked victims of the Technocracy.
Sonya visits the puma spirits with appropriate offerings. They agree to help design an appropriate rite.
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