Blood Shaper - Chapter 43Book 6:

... quiet room that he’d passed through and the torn apart, tiny throne room, a testament to the arrogance and narcissism of the man who’d once sat in the now broken throne combined with the outward appearance of the man made him hesitate, for just a moment. The elderly looking vampyr didn’t take advantage of the pause, it just stared back at Kay with narrowed eyes, looking like someone trying to remember something they might have forgotten. The complete lack of tension that was an ambiance all it’s ...