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Kaspar looks up Gertrude Iglesias on social media and finds a few people.
Marigold runs into the Haven and calls a house meeting. She tells everyone about her dream about Bishop. Theodora contacts Ib through Bloody Message.
Ib describes Bruce as a scrawny white guy, 20s, big tribal tattoo on his arm. He's Connor's childe. Says the rumor is he used to be a thinblood. Says Temple has been looking into Mugshot.
Premonition: club, downtown LA. Connor is talking to Bruce about security. Bookstore in the distance. Sad feeling, like it's the last one. They pass a mirror. Connor has no shadow but when Bruce passes it shatters.
Empire Club.
Kaspar Fleshcrafts Mirpuri (Arjun), himself (Rachel), and Marigold (Maria) to disguise us. Max drives us to the club. Marigold finds Bruce and he walks up to us unprompted. Marigold Mesmerizes him and he follows us but Connor stops us. Kaspar manages to Cloud his memory and he and Mirpuri distract him. Connor seems to know they're vampires and gets angry. Mirpuri shows him the fake ID for Arjun and Connor takes it. Connor loudly accuses Mirpuri of grabbing a waitress and Mirpuri accuses him of being racially motivated. Marigold gets Bruce into the van and has Max drive around the block, Mesmerizing him to "Just sit there until I tell you to get up." Connor physically removes Mirpuri from the club and Kaspar follows. They meet at a gas station and take Bruce back to Sweet Dean's.
Change of plans -- we take Bruce to the Haven. As we are trying to tie him up to get him out of the van, he breaks the Mesmerize hold on him and attacks, running out of the van. After an intense fight he breaks out of the walls and Aglaonike and Mirpuri chase him down the street. Conrad (neighbor Setite) knocks him out on the sidewalk. We stake him and put him in the basement cell.
Theodora goes to hunt at max Hunger and kills a guy named Chad. She Embraces him to save him and drives back to the Haven in his BMW.
--- NEXT NIGHT ---
Theodora teaches Chad how to hunt in Hollywood and then sends him with Brandii to pick up whatever he needs from his house.
Marigold invites Katie and Dracula over and explains the Bishop/Bruce situation. Theodora returns and uses Eyes of the Serpent on Bruce as Katie uses Compel Spirit to bring Bishop to the forefront. Bishop and Bruce switch back and forth talking to us. Katie Compels Bishop out of the body while Marigold watches with Share the Senses. She then Eviscerates Spirit on Bruce. Marigold tells her to make it painful. Three robed spectres that only Katie and Marigold can see come into the room screaming and rip his soul out of his body. A hole opens up and he is dragged down into it. One of the spectres looks at Bishop and he quickly jumps into the body. Bruce's hand grabs Marigold's and Bishop says, "So cold..."
Bishop drinks from Marigold. Fills him in a bit on goings on in the last four years. Katie leaves. Theodora texts Brandii and finds out that Young Sixxy and Chad just met at the club. Kaspar Fleshcrafts Bishop so that he doesn't look like Bruce anymore.
Theodora goes to her Haven. Max, Dracula, and Bishop all spend the night.
Kaspar notices that HoST isn't around. He eventually finds her sneaking back inside; she asks if the specters are gone but Kaspar doesn't know what she means. HoST says that they drag you into Oblivion and she was scared because they are a threat to all ghosts. Kaspar is surprised that HoST could leave the Haven; she says that she usually can't. He goes to ask Marigold if she summoned ghosts into the Haven; she says that she didn't do anything and shuts the door.
--- NEXT NIGHT ---
Bishop Frenzies when he awakens. Marigold pushes Max out of the room and he runs for help. Marigold Frenzies as well. Bishop manages to bite Marigold twice before Pam and Kaspar show up. Mirpuri takes Marigold to her herds and Pam force feeds Bishop a raccoon.
Young Sixxy and Chad are competitively swimming at Theodora's. Theodora asks Young Sixxy if he can take Chad under his wing. She agrees to let him be the DJ at the Asylum. She takes Chad hunting to teach him a bit and tells him about the Second Inquisition. He thinks it's the Deep State.
Kaspar goes out to catch animals and returns home. Max has arrived with the van and a girl named Cindy who "wants to meet Bishop." Kaspar unceremoniously Clouds her memory and tells Max to return to him afterwards so that he can do it again. Dracula appears with Vlad disguised as Jasper. He says they are there to take care of Bishop and that Jasper has come to ensure the security of the Haven. Kaspar gives him a tour and updates him on the Sullivan Dane searh. He is very interested in Bishop; wants Kaspar to find out about his religious leanings and whether he has visions.
Marigold and Mirpuri return home. Marigold has Christina take her to the safety deposit box, swears Bishop to secrecy, and has him read the diary. He tells her that he heard a calm voice while he was away. Marigold tells him about the voice that told her that the clan must triumph. She says that he should go to a graveyard or visit Katie to see if he can speak to ghosts and he agrees.
Kaspar approaches Marigold and Bishop and asks if he can help with the search for Dane. Bishop does a sage ritual and tells Kaspar that Dane is in a dangerous place and that Kaspar is very important. Marigold is super impressed but Kaspar is not. Bishop falls to the flood and grabs his head. Says he sees him in a small house, out east, at the foot of the mountain. A bald man, looks weak but isn't. Says he doesn't think Marigold should go because she is too important. Marigold says okay. Kaspar slips up and says that he will be happy to report that Bishop is psychic and Marigold grills him on what he means. He says Dracula wanted to know but Marigold misunderstands and takes him to mean Bela. She warns Bishop that Kaspar will make the furniture spy on him.
--- NEXT NIGHT ---
Theodora comes to the Bite Club Haven. Dracula says that Bishop can come to Santa Monica with him and Theodora offers to set him up with a place. Marigold is sad and asks if she can stay there too sometimes.
Theodora reports on what she's gotten from other Anarchs: Mugshot - central face of south central revitalization. invested a lot. hard to say what he knows about SI but he's been seen in the sun. Gentrification effort but with POC, base in east culver city? government folks for sure. dead cell zone, weird towers, cops. some of the community hates them, some like them. across from dean's - mma octagon, bar with lots of tvs. animals getting rounded up include those that LA animal control don't usually pick up. chou says it's definitely odd.
Marigold returns her diary to the safety deposit box.
Marigold and Bishop go to see Katie who has been tracking movement in and out of the city with Amethyst and Fisher. She says there's been more suspicious government activity than before but they need more time to properly track it.
Theodora, Mirprui, and Kaspar discuss going to the Nosferatu to find out about using animals to spy on the house in Bishop's vision.