"Would you be willing to tell me why the hell your shadow vampire was tailing Feldman?"
"Perhaps we merely wanted to keep an eye on the diviner," Nataraja said.
I pretended to consider it. "No. I don't buy it. Keeping a vamp in the field is too expensive for casual surveillance."
"We have nothing further to discuss," Nataraja said.
"A pleasure seeing you, too," I said.
"Pulisic, escort the Order representative out of our territory." Nataraja grimaced.
"We wouldn't want anything to happen to her. I simply couldn't bear it."
Pulisic gave me an odd look and walked out with us, leaving Rowena and Nataraja behind.
As soon as we were out of Nate's earshot, I stopped. "You don't really have to escort me."
"But I do."
"In that case I have a question." Pulisic looked at me.
"If I were to taint a living animal with necromantic magic, how would I do it?"
"By taint you mean… ?"
There was no way out of this question without giving myself away. I was too stupid for this job.
