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They honestly believe their victims are alway
too scared to fight back or at least attempt to outsmart them."
    "Plus," he added, "in all the time I served under him
he never did keep a clean desk or organize his papers."
    Keon threw his head back and laughed. "Something
tells me that a few centuries you will be more sadistic than
he."
     
    "So where to Tavis?" Jaxon asked him as he readjusted
his shoulder strap.
    Tavis looked sharply back at him. "You mean you want
to come with me?"
    Jaxon nodded as if it should be obvious.
    "And what about him?" Tavis flicked a thumb towards
Henry was up in a nearby tree staring at a bird's nest.
    Jaxon shrugged. "Well he is coming too right. He
needs us. I mean hell Tavis, you helped us get our freedom so that
kind of bonds us to you. We are like brothers now."
    Brothers, Tavis turned the idea over in his
head. He liked the thought of that. "We would have to give you new
names though."
    Jaxon raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
    Tavis explained, "because your old names represent
your old life so your new ones should represent your new one."
    Jaxon nodded, looking extremely pleased.
    They stopped trekking up the mountain and Tavis
leaned against a tree. "So what's new name going to be?"
    Jaxon stood still for a few seconds before
announcing, "Dunc! I have always liked the name Dunc."
    Tavis nodded his approval.
    Jaxon looked Tavis's shoulder and shouted, "Hey
Henry, get your ass over here."
    Henry waited until the mother bird flew towards the
bird's nest. As she dive-bombed towards him, intent on protecting
her babies, Henry reached out and caught her in mid air. He
clutched the struggling bird hand and leapt back down to the
ground. He kept staring at the bird as he walked back to the
others.
    Jaxon repeated Tavis's question and explanation. "So
what's it going to be little brother? What's your new name?"
    Henry still stared at the bird until the bird locked
gazes with him. Her own black eyes meeting his. He smiled before
chomping off her head. He crushed the rest of her body as he
chewed.
    Tavis and Jaxon didn't look fazed as they awaited his
answer.
    He swallowed and spat out a feather.
    "Well?" Tavis snapped.
    "Korrigan," Henry finally said, "call me Korrigan
from now on."
    He then turned back around and smiled gleefully as he
saw another bird. "Ooh a bluejay. My favorite!"
    Tavis and Dunc laughed as he chased after it.
    As they started trudging again was when Dunc asked,
"what about last names?"
    "Well since we are now brothers, why not call
ourselves the McAlester brothers?" Tavis suggested.
    Dunc stood still to consider it. "The McAlester
brothers eh? Huh! I like it."
     
     
    Sic Semper Tyanris , Tavis thought to himself
as he flicked out his switchblade. It was a dainty thing with a
pearl handle and a very shiny blade. He had this thing since the
sixties and it was his most treasured possession. Ironic that what
he treasured was something that he had bought during his years as a
vampire. Maybe not too ironic considering my life as a human
wasn't that great. He readjusted his glasses as he sat up and
batted away strands of his dirty blonde hair. He thought back to
his time as the Sovereign's "solider" so to speak; still picking
his fingers with his beloved blade. He gritted his teeth
remembering the yoke he had been placed under. Which is really a
bit of an understatement considering how I was treated. The solider
drills, the discipline, and the punishments. I couldn't even take a
piss without the Sovereign's permission.
    He gritted his teeth and his grip on the blade
tightened. It is amazing how I was finally able to get out. If
you could call it that. Blackmailing Keon wasn't an easy thing to
do but I had accomplished it. I had killed two birds with one stone
by getting him to agree to fake my own death. One) it helped me
achieve my freedom and two) it made sure that Keon would help keep
me out of the Sovereign's reach. There was only one downside to it
and that was the fact that Keon knows I