"Snape!"
Hearing the commotion, Severus immediately opened his eyes and raised his wand toward the source of the sound.
"What are you dawdling for? Dawn is almost here!" A snow-white macaw spoke in Gong Saiyi's voice.
Severus stared dazedly at the Patronus. Just then, someone knocked on the door.
"Get up, Smith. We have to leave!"
Severus sat up in bed, rubbed his eyes, then got up and opened the bedroom door.
Giovanni the vampire was packing his things like a Dugbog whose nest had been discovered.
"What happened?" Severus asked.
"The vampire hunters are back. They must know I'm the one who's been causing trouble lately." Giovanni said anxiously. "I need to leave quickly."
"The French wizards are back?" Severus asked.
"No, the pure-blood aristocrats are back. Napoleon issued an amnesty, allowing them to return to France."
"That idiot." Severus gritted his teeth, and the two of them began packing together.
"Where did that parrot come from?" Giovanni asked.
Severus ignored him.
"I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
"I truly have no idea what good news there could be at a time like this." He gave a fake smile.
"The good news is that the bounty on you has been lifted," Giovanni said. "The bad news is that you've become the new prize. Whoever catches you first will become Paris's first Prefect of Police."
Severus froze for a moment.
"If you fall into those people's hands, you won't even die easily."
"Do you know who they are?"
"There's the Red Priest Demare. He was originally with the Church, but later joined the Jacobins and became an accomplice in persecuting Church members." Giovanni said, "He's Fouché's right-hand man. Then there's Dubois of the anti-smuggling police, Bonaparte's servant, the city guard, generals with