Evening of Study

Hayden returned to his apartment to find April exactly where he’d left her. Pouring over the documents and maps. She was obsessed with narrowing down the search. He loved the way she wiggled her nose to adjust her glasses as she read. Her hands never missed a beat as she flipped from one page to another.

“How’s it going?”

“Well, I found something back in the eighteen ten referring to this Roger Helbourne. I don’t believe that’s his birth name.”

“You mean he assumed someone else’s name? Or he made it up as he went along?”

“I mean, it would have meaning to him. If he reinvented himself, or he was reborn as something new.”

“Reborn? Reborn as what?”

“Vampires call the process of creating a new vampire rebirth. Helbourne, sounds a lot like born in Hel. If he were Scandinavian, their mythology has a Hel. A person and a place, in fact. So it could be born of Hel too. Then there’s the Helbournes of England. Either way, we could lo