"Robert Doherty - Area 51 - Nosferatu" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doherty Robert)

image. He was standing on the wide stairs of some building, perhaps a symphony
hall, looking out over the night crowd.
"I have known him a long time," Nosferatu said, staring at the screen. "He was
made Vampyr, also in the First Age of Egypt, the son of the Airlia Amun and a
High Consort, along with his twin sister Lilith. She died most horribly at the
hands of the Airlia while Vampyr and I watched. He swore revenge then against
both Airlia and humans, who so blindly followed them and helped kill her."
"He is very powerful," Tian Dao Lin said.
Nosferatu nodded. "He too has gone by many names

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over the years and has wielded much power from the shadows. We have met several
times, even as allies long ago. But now that the Airlia are gone, I fear what he
will do next."
"You fear or you know?" Tian Dao Lin asked.
"I have had some reports," Nosferatu acknowledged vaguely. He stared at the
image on the screen. "I have known Vampyr for millennia, from the first day he
swore vengeance, and his rage has not abated over the years, but rather grown.
He has done many terrible things through the ages and"тАФNosferatu paused, then
reluctantly continuedтАФ"now that the constraint of the Airlia and their minions
is gone the only real threat he has is in this room."
"So that is why you brought us here," Tian Dao Lin said. "You need allies
against Vampyr."
"Yes," Nosferatu said, "but also remember that we are sources of the Airlia
virus also, and I have no doubt Vampyr has plans to gather our blood also."
"He would kill his own?" Adrik asked.
"Vampyr does what he wills, whenever he wants," Nosferatu said. "If he decides
he wants our blood, he will let nothing stand in his way."
"But you would not take his blood," Tian Dao Lin noted. "So what other sources
of Airlia blood are there?"
Nosferatu leaned back in his chair. He glanced at Adrik. "As you are well
aware, the SS screened vast amounts of blood in their concentration camps,
searching for any that might be special, although they didn't know exactly what
was special about it. The SS was corrupted by the Mission and Aspasia's Shadow,
who were seeking traces of the Airlia blood as he finally knew why it was
important. He used a blood ceremony for initiation into the SS. During that
ceremony, top members of the SS re-

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ceived minute portions of the virus, most likely that which Aspasia's Shadow
recovered from the Ones Who Wait, whom he killed.
 "That is why Dr. Von Seeckt, who eventually ended up on the American Majestic-
12 committee, managed to live so long and survive his illness as long as he did.
As did other Nazis who escaped after the war."
"I know of what you speak," Adrik said. "But I lost track of that blood at the
end of the war. For a while I thought the Mission moved it to South America via
the Odessa link."
Nosferatu shook his head. "No. The ceremony was held at the SS castle at