Kane 2 – The Throne of Fire

As soon as we started our quest, a magical Russian ice cream salesman named Vlad the Inhaler was going to try to assassinate us.

I still wasn’t half as good as Carter at remembering all those odd names. [And no, Carter. That’s not a compliment. It simply means you’re a bigger nerd.]

Right, right. Myth and science were both true—simply different versions of the same reality, blah, blah. I’d heard that lecture a hundred times, and I didn’t want to hear it again.