Giovanni De'Honore
an excerpt

Katherine thrived like I’d never seen before and for a time we were happy. We spent the evenings out at shows, dining and enjoying each other’s company. What work needed to be done, I delegated to my partners, Mr. Winters and Mr. Rogers, who, for the sake of simplicity, I had blood bonded shortly after my return from Chicago. This left me free for the first time in my life to live with a measure of leisure and ease. What work I had to attend to personally was largely wrapped up in work for the Colors and Giovanni which the partners would not have been able to handle. For the sake of my safety, I did not send my partners, my ghouls, to deal with other vampires directly.

I absolutely made it my business to protect Kate from the threats of the others, schooling her in the Traditions, Legal documents and makeup of the society and she was an eager student. She asked questions, marveling at the existence of vampires, unfortunately romanticizing them. I did my best to tell her what the truth was, the horror of it, but as I eventually found out, I was unsuccessful.

It was the thought that magic was real and wielded by a bloodline of vampires known as the Tremere that truly captured her imagination.