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    The Blood Vivicanti Part 5
    The Blood Vivicanti Part 5
    The Blood Vivicanti Part 5
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    The Blood Vivicanti Part 5

    By Becket

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    Lowen the Dark Man – a ghost from the planet Khariton who possesses human hosts – has captured Theo, imprisoned the Red Man, and has turned almost an entire city into his army of Sleeper Devils. Wyn and Ms. Crystobal have planned a daring rescue attempt for Theo and the Red Man, but they cannot pull it off without the help of Mary Paige, the young Blood Vivicanti with the photographic memory. Although she no longer has any desire to drink blood, she uses all her remaining Blood Memories to help her friends break into Lowen’s Black Building. But the Kharetie ghost has plans of his own for Theo, much to the surprise and sorrow of Mary Paige. International Bestselling Author ANNE RICE and BECKET bring you the original new story of THE BLOOD VIVICANTI.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBecket
    Release dateJun 4, 2014
    ISBN9781941240106
    The Blood Vivicanti Part 5
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    Becket

    Becket has a BA in music composition, an MA in Systematic Theology, and an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He was a Benedictine monk for many years. For the last nine years, he has worked as Anne Rice’s assistant, and has spent that time learning from her.

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      The Blood Vivicanti Part 5 - Becket

      The

      Blood

      Vivicanti

      Part 5

      Lowen the Dark Man

      created by

      Anne Rice and Becket

      written by

      Becket

      The Blood Vivicanti

      Becket

      Copyright © 2014 Becket

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 1-941240-08-9

      ISBN-13: 978-1-941240-08-3

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the imagination of the creator(s) or are used fictitiously.

      Under copyright law, if you are not the copyright owner of this work, you are forbidden to reproduce, create derivative works based on this work, download, distribute copies of the work, decompile this work without Becket’s express written permission.

      Becket’s note

      In 2011, Anne Rice and I began talking about the development of a new breed of blood drinkers.

      The first ground rule was that they had to have an entirely different cosmology from her other supernatural stories.

      She and I spent many weeks emailing back and forth, sharing copious detailed notes. We had several energetic lunches and dinners, whence we discussed the foundation and framework of the story you’re about to read. We swapped ideas about the strengths and weaknesses of these new blood drinkers, ideas about the characters themselves as well as their back-stories, and more ideas about potential narrative devices.

      One of the amazing facets of Anne’s writing method is that she seems to devote almost as much time to selecting the right names for things as she does to carefully crafting the narrative. Both go hand in hand, I’ve learned from her. She’s taught me much. The right name is as important as le mot juste.

      But what name would we call our new blood drinkers?

      One day, after we’d spent weeks thinking about what to call this new breed, I came into her office as she thumped closed a Latin textbook. She beamed at me with her irresistible smile. She told me she knew what to call our blood drinkers. She had not chosen a Latin word, but had developed a new word from Latin phraseology.

      What was the new word she’d developed?

      Vivicanti, she said as her smile broadened.

      I loved the word instantly!

      Our blood drinkers will be called, Anne Rice announced: The Blood Vivicanti.

      Then it was my job to write the story.

      My anger against you will rest. My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will be angry no longer. Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, I have returned your deeds upon your head.

      —Ezekiel 16:42-43

      The Blood Vivicanti

      Part 5

      Lowen the Dark Man

      Wyn and Ms. Crystobal stood before the Black Building. It was night. They were wearing dark sunglasses, gray clothes, and black overcoats.

      They looked confident. They looked cool.

      The Black Building was Lowen’s. It was 150 floors from ground to top. More floors delved deep underground – like the Mines of Moria.

      Balrogs were thankfully absent.

      Lowen the Dark Man had stolen the Black Building through manipulation, trickery, and by twisting almost an entire city into his little army of Sleeper Devils.

      His Sleeper Devils were not zombies.

      And it would not be accurate to say that they were entirely mindless. They had minds. They were simply forbidden to use them often.

      For some, it was not a big change.

      Lowen would let his Sleeper Devils think of him, and not much else. They thought of him and they worshiped him, as if he were King Nebuchadnezzar at the outset of his madness.

      Wyn and Ms. Crystobal entered the Black Building.

      The main lobby was packed with Sleeper Devils.

      Wyn and Ms. Crystobal had been prepared for a good fight. So they were a little surprised and a lot cautious when none of the Sleeper Devils tried to stop them.

      The Sleeper Devils watched Wyn and Ms. Crystobal enter. They gathered around the two and moved with them through the main lobby.

      Playing in the background was an elevator music rendition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

      Wyn and Ms. Crystobal walked toward a corner of the lobby where there were stairs, elevators, and the security office.

      Two very large Sleeper Devils blocked the way. Their skin was ashy and they smelled like rot. One was wearing a tattered suit. The other was wearing a grocer’s uniform. They might have been simple

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