Synopsis, Chapters 1 and 2:
The dream-selves of a sampling of the Kindred of Sacramento find themselves in a strangely sterile version of the city, where they encounter the spectral essence of several vampires that were destroyed in the Lost Nights or shortly beforehand. These ghosts warn the Kindred of dangerous nights ahead, at the hands of those responsible for the Lost Nights and the forces they have unleased, and of some other danger, something with an ancient hatred of the Kindred. They also inform the vampires that they are being tested, to see if they are worthy of something to assist them against these threats.
A rain of rancid blood has started to fall upon the Kindred, and within the blood, worms which quickly grow and start to gather themselves into humanoid shapes, a threat a few of these Kindred have already faced.