Chapter One-Hundred-and-Seventy-Three

Even though they had eliminated almost all bloodfiends in Moonport, finding the Golden Nail by his melody was like searching for a needle in a stack of needles, and the compass just kept pointing them back towards the house where Cassius Bello had died.

The fundamental difference inherent to the melodies of bloodfiends meant that they were easy to locate, but for Adam’s search of the serial killer, he was essentially just searching for the set of emotions he had noticed. And though melodies had some unique flavour to them that he could distinguish, it was proving harder than he had initially assumed.

Perhaps if the city had been overrun by ghouls and lesser bloodfiends it would have been easy enough, but we’ve ensured the survival of many of the city’s people, which has the unfortunate side-effect of obscuring the Golden Nail’s presence from my power.

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