Monitoring one the outermost walls of the Vampire Realm picked up the signal three hours after dawn.
It did not come as an attack. There was little of the bursting force from an external enemy as Lucian's reinforced wards (those set after Selene's death) were threatened to open by whatever unseen entity had made the trip through the guarded borders in its search for the realm. Instead the outer layer of sensing ward crystals only marked a clean pattern of pulses that repeated every ninety seconds with clockwork regularity, sending the same complex, multi-layered impression with every pulse.
It was Heron who showed up first of the Origin Clan, standing silently before the projection crystal as it showed the pulse repeating over and over again in neat waves with no comments given to either of the patterns. Zane was right behind him, his coat half-off, red eyes narrowing as he took in the same information Heron had.
