Page 103 of Dawn Caravan
“Because it belongs to both of them,” Tenzin said. “Vano is based in Ukraine, but he has invested with Radu in several properties. He’s been here longer than we have.”
“Weird.” This meant something. “What does this mean? What am I missing?”
Tenzin raised an eyebrow. “You can’t tell which vampires are in charge and which ones are guards?”
“No, no, no…”
My sister knows something was stolen—she’s the one who helped me test you—but she does not know all the details. My brother knows nothing, and it must remain that way.
Ben stood. “Vano knows. Radu thinks Vano doesn’t know anything about the goblet being stolen, but he was in Kashgar with Kezia, looking for me.”
“So Vano knows something is up?”
“If he knows what we do, he has to have figured out that Radu lost something important.”
“The icon?”
“Possibly.” Ben started to pace. “But if we were still looking for the icon, then why would I be here?”
“Kezia is wondering that herself. She’s the one who set up the icon theft.” Tenzin used air quotes around the wordtheft.
“What do you mean?”
Tenzin frowned; then she looked a little embarrassed. “I did forget to tell you.”
“Tenzin!”
“What?” She motioned between them. “There’s been quite a bit of tension if you hadn’t noticed. Kezia’s picture was in that Renaissance triptych I spotted in the chapel.”
“She was a patron?”
“That was her chapel. Farkas isherhuman.”
Ben’s mouth dropped open. “Farkas is her—”
“I’m guessing a former lover? Current lover? He’s not that old. Or maybe he was just her errand boy, gathering pretty objects as she happened upon them.”
“So the house did belong to a vampire.”
“Oh yes.” Tenzin hovered in the air, sitting cross-legged as she floated in front of the sketches she’d made. “I’d guess the house belongs to her.”
“So Kezia knows about the icon.”
“Yes. She set up the job with Radu to test you,” Tenzin said. “But does she know about the goblet theft?”
“Not according to Radu.” Ben paced in front of the pictures. “She does know something is missing.”
“She might suspect the goblet since the ceremony is coming up.”
“And if she confided in Vano, she might have told him about the goblet.”
“Possibly.”
Kezia and Vano.
Radu and Kezia.
Kezia and Farkas.
