Rodriguez arrives with a forged invitation because this is a breach of hospitality, the vampires are free to kill her. Michael Carpenter keeps Dresden on his feet so they can find the sorcerer. Thomas facilitates Dresden's introduction to the vampires, who poison him with narcotic vampire venom. At the entrance, they meet Thomas Raith, the representative of the White Court vampires, and his human date Justine. He and Michael Carpenter go to Bianca's party reasoning that it's unlikely to be a coincidence, and that they may be able to identify the person there. When Dresden bound the Nightmare to him, he felt the presence of the sorcerer that was controlling it. Since Dresden cannot determine which of his enemies is controlling the Nightmare, he casts a spell that binds the Nightmare to focus its attention only on him. Since Dresden defiled the holy blade by attempting to use it in an act of treachery, the Leanansidhe is able to pick it up and steal it.ĭresden calls on assistance from a friend in Chicago PD to get Kravos's journal from the evidence lockers in order to learn the name of the demon. Dresden picks up Amoracchius, intending to use it against his faerie godmother, but the sword wrenches out of his hands and lands at the faerie's feet. In exchange for a pledge of service, his godmother points out the water streams around the cemetery, and Dresden tackles the Nightmare into one, causing it to melt into ectoplasm. The demon was disguised as Dresden himself both times.ĭresden tracks the Nightmare to a cemetery and attacks it, when the Leanansidhe appears as Dresden is beaten down. Dresden deduces that Michael Carpenter and Murphy will be attacked next but arrives too late, managing to scare the Nightmare away only after he's already hurt Murphy and arriving again too late to stop the demon from kidnapping Michael Carpenter's wife Charity.
Awakening, he finds out that the Nightmare's dream attack was potent-he's been drained of much of his magic. Helping Murphy and Father Forthill with the hunted Lydia, Dresden is attacked by vampires and sent into a narcotic slumber, dreaming of being attacked by a demon called the Nightmare, who appears to be allied with Kravos, a sorcerer he, Murphy, and Michael Carpenter arrested after the events of Fool Moon. He's politically required to go, but forbids Rodriguez to follow, despite her reporter's curiosity. Set a year after the events of Fool Moon, Dresden and his friend Michael Carpenter do some ghost hunting and then are nearly captured by his overprotective faerie godmother the Leanansidhe, escaping only to be arrested by the Chicago police.ĭresden is bailed out by his girlfriend Susan Rodriguez, and receives an official invitation to represent the White Council at a Red Court vampire party.
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