Daryl talks about how he and Yolanda had come to Sacramento after hearing the rumors that a lot of the area's kindred had been wiped out, leaving turf for the taking. It had taken them a couple days since Yolanda (a Daeva) couldn't Haven within soil as Daryl could, but they'd eventually made it, sleeping away the day in motels and driving their motorcycles by night. The night they got to Sacramento, they didn't catch a glimpse of any Kindred, so since it wasn't too long until sunrise, they'd broken into an abandoned building and hidden down in its boiler room to wait out the day.
He says the two of them awoke on what they thought was the next night, and decided to head to the bar where they'd encountered Konstantin and the others. "It seemed weird, we both just thought that was where to go....ah, hell!" His eyes get wide. "I remember now... they told us to go there, planted that in our heads. We were set up from the start!"
he relates them going to the bar, and what happened there. Daryl happened to look at his watch, and noticed that the date was not what it should have been had they awakened the next night, but before he could give that a lot of thought, a man had come up and asked if his name was Jake. That triggered him and Yolanda to go berserk.
"I can see the fight in my head now," he says. "But it's like... something I watched, not something I did. And then all the other Kindred showed up... Priscus Konstantin and the others... Yolanda's Beast got set off and she tried to get away, but one of the others did a brain whammy on her. Konstantin and the others took us outside, then to an empty lot a little ways away. We were telling them what happened when... I felt something kinda go 'click' inside me. Suddenly I couldn't move, and I could see Yolanda was the same way... then we blew up. I knew something bad was going to happen, but... I couldn't do a damn thing about it. Couldn't save her..."
Daryl dabs at his eyes again with the tissue Victoria gave him, then takes a moment to calm himself and turns to Asa.
"Your Majesty, I swear, Yolanda and me, we planned to contact someone and get acknowledged the night after we got to town. I ask... I ask that you acknowledge me, so I can get back on my feet - or, get my feet back, I guess - and go after the bastards that did this to us. They killed the woman I love, and tried to kill me. I overheard Konstantin and that creepy doctor at the nuthouse mention some Lost Nights... sounds like the people that did this, they've killed other kindred, or tried to, and keep trying. Sounds to me like they could use some killing themselves."
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