It was as though Kody ged immediately, Sylvie twisted and looked at Casey. Hitting the mute, Sylvie looked into Casey’s sunlit eyes. “I would rather you not say anything, Casey. Do I have to make this an order or will you go along with it?”
“I am not a fan, but I get it. No, I won’t say a thing.” Casey rolled her eyes and smiled. “Good thing I love you, witch.”
Waving her hand, Sylvie hit the mute button again. “Sorry about that Kody, I need you to e to the reservation house.” When Sylvie heard Kody’s voice ft and without any hint of question, she khat her and was w perfectly.
“I’ll be there as soon as I take care of a little problem.” Kody offered and pulled up Sylvie’s lens address a her the ongoing image. “I am in the middle of dealing with two shadewraiths, I have time to figure this out?”
When the image crossed into Sylvie’s vision via her tact overy, she immediately shared it with Casey and gave her partner a very worried look. “Kody, do you have any bloodstone?”
“ive, I have verted into cyberic mode. The two are not attag but are following me around the parking lot, Sylvie.” Kody sed the area for Sylvie to see.
It was Casey that mouthed to Sylvie ‘Get rid’ and then pulled her tacts and shoved stuck them in their case. “Hey there Kody. Good to hear your voice again.” Casey shrugged and sat back.
Taking in all the information, Sylvie started with the immediate danger. “Kody. You’ve seen their aggression. They have to sense something that is making them not attabsp; They generally aren’t scared of anything except bloodstone. You saw that tonight. Figure it out quickly.”
A few seds ter, Kody’s voice resumed with a clear robotitensity. “Hello, Miss Rivers.” They paused. “Bloodstone properties and the parking lot share ohing in on, Sylvie.”
“Which is?” Sylvie inquired softly. A moment ter she watched Kody kneel and grab a handful of the rocks and gray gritty sand. “What am I looking at Kody? You don’t have time for this. Get rid of those shadewraiths.”
Unrealistically fast, Sylvie watched the bination of future teology and vampire biology at work. Witnessing the metal structures on Kody’s arms and legs vacuum a rge quantity of dust, Sylvie held Casey’s hand as she watched the events unfold in her video link with Kody.
Nearly as fast as both Vivienne and Amber, Kody streaked in a cloud of dust and ht attacked the Shadewraiths. Hearing the two ughing as they encircled Kody, Sylvie used her free hand and tapped on Casey’s tact case. “Casey…you have to…oh god.”
Frantically and against her better judgement, Casey yahe case free of her pocket and dohe pair of tacts that she’d just taken out.
-This is a bad idea, Rivers. Koday hear and see everything with a thought. Possibly hear our own thoughts..-
Immediately shooting a ed and worried look from her shiny yellow eyes, Casey shook her head and quietly whispered to Sylvie, “Are..you sure?” Without an ao her question, Casey’s HUD came to life and the video that was going live opeo the upper right of her lenses. Mirr Sylvie’s se, Casey watched the battle unfold with a simple, “Oh..god..”
Unfolding before the twin vampires, the small battle with their cyberic friend and the wicked ghost-like shadewraiths ensued. Kody was in the ter of the cirg wraiths doing their best to release little gouts of the dust that had been absorbed. As fast as Kody was, the shadewraiths were faster to read had the advantage of not being hindered by solid matter. “Metal..Shell…I smell your oily blood from here.” A spray of the dust shot out from Kody’s knuckle and the shadewraiths simply split themselves into dozens of little bck shadows and avoided the meager attack. “e brother…as one.”
“As one, agree…share the spilled oil.” With a quid hazy jaunt, the sed shadewraith pluhrough one of Kody’s metallic arms and reemerged ughing and baring its teeth covered with Kody’s mixed petroleum blood all over its teeth, dripping it onto the ground. “This one is easy, tastes of blood and fuel…” Its diamond eyes circled Kody as the vampire tried again to hit it with another line of dust. “This blood-shell…bine…yes…” A momehe two shadewraiths smashed into one another and ughed. Four diamond eyes bleogether with a mind-altering screech of ughter and paihe sed pair of eyes flowed down the oil-staieeth to disappear from view, leaving the ohat passed through Kody to be the victor.
Sensing that their left arm had stopped w as intended, Kody’s defense system reverted the metal skeleton bato flesh and they looked to the side as the dust remaining as ammunition fell harmlessly to the ground. Until the st attack, Kody and their cpu didn’t have enough information to form a proper pn. It was the way the shadewraith passed through Kody’s metal arm that told the puter all it needed. “It’s the..its the..He-he..” Kody’s voice brittlely stammered into the microphone so Sylvie could hear. “Pcu…arghh…CPU, it’s damaged Sylvie. Whatever that thing did, it's spreading in my cir-cir-circuits.
Witnessing their friend being the worst version of themselves, Casey jumped up and shook Sylvie. “DO SOMETHING!” She screamed, “Your pride is going to get Kody killed.”
Unknown to both of her vampires, Sylvie was in plete trol of the situation. “Kody. Your arm is just fine and the cpu is not you. Use that brilliant mind and back up into the parking lot, then work it out petently.” Sylvie turned and gred at Casey, “You. Calm down, I am not going to let Kody get hurt.” She pointed one of her thin fingers at her lover. “I uand what you mean about the tacts, and I agree. Right now let’s get Kody to us.”
