With the hotel manager Winston thoroughly enraged and Scott willing to act, Henry no longer needed to worry about the Continental Hotel's operations.
Compared with the High Table, whose whereabouts were unknown, Henry cared more about the movements of the New York Continental Hotel.
After all, he was in New York. Before the military and police obtained ammunition capable of dealing with Vampires and Werewolves, whether these gunmen acted or not would determine just how rampant those creatures of darkness could become.
Henry had gained a great deal from the Continental Hotel, and there was good news from the Assassins as well. Cassandra sent word that an Assassin she knew, someone with considerable influence within the organization, was willing to meet him.
Besides discussing the Assassins' operational strategy, that person apparently had a private matter to entrust to him as well. The specifics could wait until they met. Their meeting place was Rapid City, South Dakota.
The city lay in South Dakota's Black Hills region and was the state's second-largest city, with a population of around 150,000...
For a place considered one of the United States' six frontier states, one could hardly ask for more.
There was a regional airport, but daily flights were limited. So Henry took a shortcut and flew over directly before the appointed time. Cassandra knew his background inside and out anyway, and the meeting would not appear in any official records. It was simpler this way.
South Dakota's two major industries were agriculture and tourism. Its defining feature was how much of the culture and atmosphere of the Western frontier era it had retained. Simply put, white people made up the overwhelming majority, without all sorts of bizarre groups warped by strange ideas.
The second-largest ethnic group here was Native Americans, followed by Latinos. Black