Only the Blood Servants from the "Loyalist Sect" of the Blood Vulture Clan were cheerfully commanding the city's vagrants to clean the streets. Faded stone statues, shimmering coldly in the sun, were being loaded onto carts and transported outside the city for destruction.
Any knowledgeable merchant would know that these were the only remnants left behind after a vampire's death.
Since nobody had stopped the city's inhabitants from going out, they quickly gathered to gossip about what had happened the previous night. A thunderous piece of news soon spread through the small town, home to just a few thousand permanent residents.
The Blood Vulture manager of Bataxin City, Hertum Joel Lusenbra, had been executed personally by Earl Cardman for conspiring with the northerners and attempting to undermine the authority of the Blood Vultures.
