"Jean! If you use my surgical silk to mend your designer trousers one more time, I’ll bury you in the vegetable patch!" Slava bellowed.
Their bickering was interrupted by a sharp, rhythmic knocking—the kind of knock that sounded like a legal summons. Slava froze. It was the Keepers.
Slava opened the door to find Irina standing there, her face as cold as the Smolensk winter. Central Russia's Vampires (2021) subtitles
Jean, a dandyish vampire who had been "turned" during the Napoleonic Wars and never quite let go of the aesthetic, sauntered in. He adjusted his silk cravat, looking entirely too polished for a Tuesday morning in a gray industrial town.
"Then you have a rogue," Irina said, her eyes narrowing. "And according to the law, if the killer isn't found by the next full moon, the 'Life for a Life' rule applies. I'll have to take one of yours, Slava. Starting with the youngest." Slava froze
"We don't kill," Slava said firmly. "My family follows the rules. We drink from the hospital surplus—Jean sees to the paperwork."
"Jean," Slava said, his voice dropping the grandfatherly act to reveal the ancient predator beneath. "Get the boy. We’re going hunting. And tell him if he records this for his followers, I’ll personally break his phone." Jean, a dandyish vampire who had been "turned"
"We have a problem, Svyatoslav," she said, stepping inside without an invitation. "A body was found near the old fortress. Completely drained. And not by a mosquito."