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“One of them has killed,” Bela told them when they returned in the early morning. They were not pleased. The anger came off them as cold waves despite their calm faces.

“Which one?” Zuerst asked.

“Eiche.”

“You are certain of this?” Zweiten snapped.

“I sensed it. You told me to stay alert to them whenever I was awake.”

“But you are sure he killed?”

She nodded at Zuerst. How many times did she have to speak to be believed? “He was feeding. At first it was an animal, a creature without a mind or thought, but then he was connected to a human. I felt his terror. I felt the life leave him.” She would not add she also felt the victim’s strength. Eiche must have absorbed some of it, but the rest flowed into her. After the shock and the pain of the death, she was stronger and that her captors would never know. If every time the vampires killed she strengthened, maybe one day she could cross the iron barriers that kept her imprisoned.

“Your attention, fräulein!”

She jumped at Zuerst’s command. “Apologies. I am tired.”

“You did not sleep?”

“It is hard to rest when they do not.” Not completely true, but she did know when they were moving. And now, killing.

“Then rest while you can,” Zweiten said. “In a few weeks you will need all your talents.”

In a few weeks she hoped to be gone from here. Although where she could go that the dreaded Nazis would not find her was still an unanswered question.

But even a lone Fairy, once freed, was a force to be reckoned with.