Zhanna Friske

[Geser lies on the floor with a book, telling the tale of the Virgin of Byzantium, the origin of the Others, the Great War, and the prophecy of the Great Other]

Geser: ...And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true.

[Two agents of the Day Watch, in a shiny, black sports car, have found Vampiress Larisa wandering in the middle of traffic in a busy tunnel. Slowing the car to a walk, agent Alisa Donnikova pulls up alongside, and holds a jar pig's blood just out of Larisa's hungry reach]

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: [grasping for the jar of pig's blood] Give it to me!

Alisa Donnikova: What, you've sunk to pig's blood?

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it to me!

Alisa Donnikova: Andrey taught you how to call.

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: He taught me, he taught me. Give it to me!

Alisa Donnikova: The boy succumbed to your call. Lure him out, and when he's in your hands, demand that they bring the one who killed your Andrey.

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: My Andrey... Give it to me, please. Well, give it here.

Alisa Donnikova: Do you want revenge?

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it, give it here.

Day Watch agent: Listen, don't torture her.

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it here, please...

[Alisa stops the car, then flips the jar of pig's blood onto the pavement in front of Larisa, where it shatters]

Alisa Donnikova: [to her colleague] Now she'll find him, for sure.

Day Watch agent: Just how is she going to find him?

[Alisa tosses the boy's swimming goggles onto the pool of pig's blood]

Vampiress Larisa, initiate: She'll find him... like a dog.