BLOODLINE ZERO
He felt his bloodline snap into place the way you feel a map unfold — the specific geography of everyone who had ever come from Elise, and everyone who had come from them, a web of thirty-seven souls distributed across Europe like stars he'd been given to navigate by.
He's never had to find them. They've always simply been there. Present in the background of every thought, every night, every century, the specific frequency of Marta in Warsaw and her particular shade of midnight worry, Felix in Lyon and his constant low-level delight at being alive, the younger ones whose frequencies haven't fully settled into themselves yet but whose directions he can read like compass headings.
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