The stocky vampire straightened.
"That's ours."
Selene looked at him.
"I told them to keep enough for the people still hidden," he said. "No one asked me before taking it."
"The attendant needs it now," the soldier said. "A patient has started bleeding again."
Alex could have ended the dispute with one order. Everyone in the room knew it.
He turned toward the stocky vampire instead.
"Come and show Selene what you can spare."
The man hesitated, then followed her out.
The young woman stayed by the map.
"If he gives everything away, I'll have to go back with empty hands."
"He doesn't have to give everything," Alex said. "Stay here and tell Dorian where the people you're protecting would go if the street fails."
Dorian waited while she marked another building close to the northern line. The passage behind it had fallen in during the battle.
"How many inside?"
