A week after the ceremony, a disease starts to spread in the French Quarter, rapidly making victims among the mortals, and posing a great danger for many kindreds feeding on the mortal stock.
Carl and James investigations to find "patient zero" bring them to an abandoned gas station, where a kindred is in hiding. The woman reveals a few rumours spreading in the kindred community, pointing to a mysterious figure known as Baron Cimitiere.
They arrange a meeting with the Baron, who instructs them in the ways of the loa (vodoun spirits). He suspects a Morbus kindred is behind the disease, since this particular bloodline of Mekhet can only feed on the diseased. He suggests to look near a place where it's easier to find sick people.
Thinking about the terminally ill, Carl and James go to the AIDS ward of a nearby hospital. After a short investigation, they discover a kindred hiding in a storage room. She's none other than Mezzo, now suffering from a terrible disease that is eating away at her very flesh.
James sucks her blood, unfortunately infecting himself, and then feeds her mortal blood, enough for her to be able to speak again. Before she falls into torpor, she reveals to them that Sarah infected her with the disease, using rites and knowledge gained from her covenant: the Ordo Dracul.
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