16,500 words.
What’s happened:
It doesn’t seem like very much, really. Matthew had a conversation with Archer, the vampire honcho guy, who warned him about Allegra. This also gave me the opportunity for an info-dump about how Matthew, a police detective, got attached as liaison to the wizards, witches and vampires.
Allegra herself met someone who tracks earthquakes.
Holly had a very disturbing dream, which she doesn’t remember, and found a ledger in the boxes of old books she is cataloguing for Bronwyn. We haven’t seen much of Holly before now. That appears to be changing.
On this day in the book in 1849, nothing happened.