Hadrian read the note that had been slipped through their door with a grin.
Harry,
The medical birds are cooking something up. They are being moved against the guild. Retrieve the Ledger of Truth.
Your friend,
Ash.
Finally, his guild master was giving him a mission. The vampire had thought that the grumpy woman had written him off as dead.
She disliked healers in general, but Hadrian thought she might like Edwin. If only because he was so different from his fellows.
Now, normally it would be going to informants and paying them for half-truths. But he had Edwin now. His necromantic trick could prove downright handy at this moment.
"Hey, Eddy, a minute?" Hadrian called, and Edwin paused from his drawing of what seemed like a heart. Not the romantic version of it, but an organ with veins sticking out of it.
"Found a sweetheart?" asked Hadrian, nodding towards the heart.