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The Cardinal - A Good Night Kiss for a Child
The kiss a mother gives a child before they slip into their dreams, a kiss on the forehead, one on each eye, and one on the lips is a special gift that opens the doorway to that special world.
Elect-Si acquires a daughter and marries Manuel as her existence as Gatekeeper between the spirit world and the physical continues. But now she finds she is also the Gatekeeper of time. The past, the NOW, and the future, she can see the boundary and how unknown the future is and how those who exist in the past cannot be allowed to pass into the NOW, or the future.
Her marriage brings children of her own. Treasured and special in their own way they challenge her to blend all the duties of motherhood, protector of the NOW and the future with her mother’s plan to ensure a female vampire continues to sit on the Eastern Papal throne.
The plan is threatened by the appearance of vampire species, unknown until know who can pass on their enzymes, their venom, through ways other than biting with fangs as her mother and she does.
The Cardinal - Harvest the Fruit
In the Eastern Church a Female Pope reigns but it is not Lady Challis. It is the one she knew as Cardinal Sophyra.
Pope Sophyra is a vampire unlike like Lady Challis. Lady Challis, like a vampire from Hollywood bites with fangs to inject the essential enzymes that allow her to feed, enslave, or kill. Cardinal Sophyra is of a previously unknown species of vampire, she spits her enzymes or “venom.” When it lands on the victim, it seeps through the skin into the blood stream. Powerful, intelligent, and scheming she and her kind not only drink the blood of humans, they harvest the body their victims to feast on.
As Lady Challis and her daughter Elect-Si work to control Pope Sophyra, a third species of Vampire appears. Much closer to Pope Sophyra and the churches hierarchy, the agenda of this third species compromises the plans of Lady Challis and Elect-Si all at a time when the essential veil between the world of spirits, souls and our physical world is becoming thinner, and thinner.
