There are few things worse than a gang of vicious vampires swarming the place. The scent of blood is strong in the air. With it is the scent of death, that musty odour that vampires bring with them wherever they go. They are foul things dressed in human shapes and it is on nights like this that their true faces are revealed.

Mogget finds Jean-Claude and his sycophants from atop a nearby roof. "You!" he calls down. "Duke! The witches of Circle Daybreak ask that you cease this brutal attack on innocent residents. Will you come to talk?"

Defeat is by this point inevitable, and even Samantha knows that there is no point in prolonging it. That's why she has commanded him to negotiate the terms of their surrender.