Chapter 88 - Marie Plots, Aym Ponders: Where in the Hell is Sam-Aye-Ell?

Desperate, he went to the only man who could, at a price, change her fate.  The Son of the Dragon had been sauntering around the Americas when he got letter of the Duke's arrival, preying on ladies in the Caribbean and planting the seeds of the legend of the chupacabra.  It took all of Aym's called-in favors and string-pulling to orchestrate Vlad's passage across the Atlantic, and Dracula was none too pleased being smuggled into Versailles in a cake.  Dejected that the public had spurned her confection, Marie had eaten it in her chateau, weeping preciously over her tea.