Raiders

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The hunt was electric. Kiya felt the man’s fear as he stumbled down the steps and strained his eyes in search of an exit. The Ravens watched him too, each circling around the vaulted chamber to cut off any possible escape route.

But their prey was fast and knew the building better than any of them. Fumbling a door handle in the dark, Monsignor Bruno Scala, the head of the Vatican’s Archivum Secretum pulled on the heavy oak door until a crack of light appeared in the darkness. It lit up the old man but he moved into the shadows before they could get to him and then he was gone, slipping away through a stone archway beyond the door.

Kiya whistled in the low light and ordered Tekin and Dariush to follow her into the corridor after Scala. The Ravens mustered, and once again she felt the adrenalin coursing through her veins like fire as she moved after the fleeing man; the lethal Bride flanked by her two Ravens…

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