Aurica reread the note as she stepped away from the tour of Houska Castle, the tour guide would never remember she was ever there.

'In the library, second row on the left, fourth shelf. Pull the book titled Zahradní Nářadí from the bottom. -Guma'

Aurica found the title in question and peered over the top of it. Seeing nothing but back of the shelf, she did as instructed. True to trope, a click and an ingenious mechanism turned the shelf inward.

Aurica grinned into the black depths and went inside, pressing the book back into place as she passed and the shelf returned to order leaving her in the utter black.

Aurica's eyes glowed crimson and the passage downward was clear as day; the vampiress proceeded.

The descent was long and winding, but Aurica caught the scent of the living growing stronger. A test of a psychic probe and it was a single mind, that of the rubbermage, and part fae, Guma.

Not wishing to be rude, she made no attempt at a silent approach. Upon entering a torchlit chamber, the lioness turned her head and flicked an ear in acknowledgment, then turned and met Aurica across the floor to clasp hands in greeting.

"Vilcom," she said in her thick Slavic accent.

Aurica replied in kind, "Lovely day for a walk in a tomb, thank you for inviting me."