The vampire's pale blue eyes flashed, and for a moment, something shifted in the dim light of the storehouse. Her aura pressed against Lilith's senses.
"Do not test my patience." The words came from somewhere deeper than the girl's throat. "I am in a cage, but I am not helpless."
Lilith's smile didn't waver. Her threads, curled around her fingers like sleeping serpents.
"How fascinating." Her voice was soft, almost admiring. "You have been captured. And yet you still have enough power to threaten me." She tilted her head, her crimson eyes fixed on the vampire's face. "You could have killed them. The soldiers who found you. You could have fled. But you didn't." A pause. "You wanted to be caught."
The vampire's aura flickered. Her jaw tightened.
"You know nothing—"
The door groaned.
