According to Schuyler’s journal (left in the 101st Street mansion and discovered by the Repository upon her disappearance), Beauty followed her home one day.
MISS ELLIE
Bliss Llewellyn
Chihuahua
Bliss’s Chihuahua canine familiar, named after her favorite character on Dallas
PATCH
Jack Force
Bloodhound (highest rank)
Jack’s canine familiar, a bloodhound he found the same evening that Mimi found Pookie
POOKIE
Mimi Force
Chow chow
Mimi’s canine familiar, a chow she found on the beach at the
Hamptons
SNOW WHITE
Aggie Carondolet
Chihuahua
Aggie Carondolet’s Chihuahua canine familiar, which she liked to dress in outfits that matched her own
APPENDIX C:
Dictionary of Terms
Author’s Note: All words in italic are from the Sacred
Language.
Abomination: Silver Bloods are called Abominations because they are vampires who have sucked the blood of their own kind and consumed their spirit. They carry the tortured souls of their victims in one body.
Absed Abysso : “Go back to Hell.” A command to a banish a
Silver Blood back to its rightful home
Adventurers Club: An elite Blue Blood organization founded in the early eighteenth century as a meeting place for likeminded globe-trotters eager to document and share their research and theories on natural and geographic phenomenon, located across from the Knickerbocker Club and Metropolitan
Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue
Advoco Adiuvo : An invocation that Schuyler uses, per
Cordelia’s instructions, so Lawrence will recognize her in
Venice
Alienari: A common trick of the Silver Bloods, used to disguise themselves as someone else
Altithronus: Audio recordings kept in the Repository of History
Animadverto: The vampire ability of “intelligent sight,” or an immense and perfect photographic memory so powerful a vampire has the ability to read and remember entire libraries
Aperio Oris: An incantation demanding that one reveal oneself
Argento Croatus: Silver Blood
Bal des Vampires: A party and congress held every other year by the European Coven. It was to be the party to end all parties at the Hôtel Lambert before it was given over to its new owners.
The celebration was infiltrated by Silver Bloods hunting for
Schuyler.
Bivio: A crossroads; a primal source of strength and power
Black Fire: The only thing that can destroy the sangre azul and kill an immortal vampire
Black Spells: Spells pertaining to the Dark Matter
Blade of Justice: Michael’s sword, one of only two archangels’ swords in the world, the other being Gabrielle’s. Only an archangel’s sword can kill another archangel.
Blood Bond: The holy matrimony and immortal bond between two vampires whose souls were twinned in Heaven.
Occasionally vampire twins are born as siblings in the human world. Bondmates are obligated to renew their vows in every cycle with a ceremony, usually in their twenty-first year, when they have come into their memories and powers and can recognize their spouse in his or her new physical shell. All it takes is for the couple to exchange the vow “I give myself to you” to become irrevocably one for that cycle. Only one couple in Blue Blood history has broken this bond—when Gabrielle forsook Michael for her human familiar.
After the bond, the vampires are stronger, but if the bond is broken, the betrayed vampire may bring the other to a blood trial, to face a sentence of death.
Blood-lock: The most powerful security system in the Blue
Blood arsenal; it only opens for the blood of an angel
Blood Manifest (Transformation): The process in which a vampire’s blue blood cells, their vampire DNA, starts to take over, typically around age fifteen. The fangs grow in, the body switches from needing nourishment from food to needing nourishment from human blood, memories of previous cycles start to come back, and specific powers begin to manifest. The process can make the young vampire weak, and may include memory shock, dizziness, and sickness.
Blood Marks: The blue marks that appear on the arms of young vampires during their Transformation. They look like a sapphire light shining through the skin. The marks are a map of the vampire’s personal histories—the sangre azul asserting itself.