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The newly made lesser vampire, meanwhile, remained exactly where Sekhmet had left him. Fresh creation obedience was strong, but still worth observing. The prisoner he had defeated had crawled back into the line with the help of two others and now refused to look directly at the transformed man.
Dickon, however, looked as if his mind had broken in more directions than before.
His stare moved from Sekhmet to the lesser vampire to Lily's sphere and back again in a pattern that said his thoughts were no longer coherent enough to form one clean fear. Too many possibilities had already outrun him. That was useful too.
Sekhmet finally decided to call up the full status window.
Not the old one. Not fragments. Everything at once.
All the gains from the last few chapters. All the shifts. All the hidden lines he now carried.
The system answered immediately.
[SYSTEM Notification: Full Status Window available.]
