The Voodoo Queen of Greater Moscow

[Lih]

He heard her strong, clear voice soar above the music. She reached out and looked upon world without any barriers as she welcomed them to her cafe. He didn't look up at her face. He just wished to know what she saw.

Lih stared out across the crowd, past the handsome dark eyed man who had watched him and Costa with interest, past the flamboyant dancers on stage, through the dark trees toward the moonlit rooftops.

This city was vast, perhaps the biggest he'd ever seen. Its complexity filled the world up from horizon to horizon. In this place, less than a lifetime ago, a great strand of fate had been decided. It had seemed a loss to society at the time, but it had simply been a necessary cost; the birthing pain of a new age. It allowed the Ascendancy to rise and take the throne... it had set a great course for destiny.

Now it seemed a second strand of fate was going to be decided in Moscow--strange things were happening. Such as the recent public coming out and open knowledge of channelers...

A strand of fate he clutched in his hands which slithered in-and-out his dreams, to him it seemed to make the first age pale in comparison...

Lih laughed at his own self-aggrandized idea and turned gratefully to his partner Costa, "job's done. Come on, let's go for a smoke."