'Not too long.' Clicking through things. One would think that outdated systems, typical of professional organizations, would be easier to navigate given his origin before the digital age, but to someone who's been using professional Apple products for years, it's a little counter intuitive. 'Probably.'

Clickclickclick. The young man is terrified of Louis in particular — Louis du Lac, hunter of young men, predator, the stuff of nightmares, as beautiful as he is deadly, he keeps thinking of the autopsy photographs, hundreds of them, every one of Louis' victims they could find. One or two over the years they've dissuaded by staging a car accident or a pulling a fire alarm, but this creature, the vampire holding his elbow, is in possession of a violent appetite that haunts the dreams of more than one agent.

So they all say. So someone said to Daniel, in a restaurant in Dubai.

He moves away from the console, looking for the isolate drive he's after. Ignoring her frozen co-worker, the young woman moves for a panel beneath the desk—