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Ashley drove about 12 miles outside of Cleveland heading off to meet with a real estate broker who was going to show her a house on Furnace street in the town of Elyria, Ohio.


She had no real reason to be interested in the former mill town other than rumors passed on to her by a friend of the Van Wilde family whom she’d been in the service of since her conception. He’d alluded to the idea that in this little hamlet just outside of Cleveland there were now rumored to be a band of Originals with which she might find safe haven and someone worthy of her service; his Domani would have taken her in if he’d not worried about offending the Giovanni the clan that had destroyed her clan. She was grateful and had turned over her Mistress’s Black Files to her friend to use in service to his own Master.


She pulled into the drive of a new two story recently renovated brick home built in the early 60s and parked her Impala rent-a-car behind a hideous SUV made by Cadillac. The Realtor was a bleached blonde wish she was younger type of woman in her early 50s her jewelry was flashy in an unnecessary sort of way ; it made the buyer think she charged too much commission.


Ashley had Ms. Hampstead trained before they’d finished inspecting the ground floor and mounted the stairs tp inspect the second story. It was while they Inspected the large 2 door 4 car garage that Ashley had tested the waters and found the woman to be perfect as a source of local information and gossip. Then once her inspection was over Ashley had her house at a reasonable price and a lesser servant who saw her as the newest and most socially high ranking she knew outside of the Country Club where they snubbed her for attending night school and becoming a successful Broker; who knew it might be good exercise arranging the social defeat of some of the local socialites as it would gain Ashley Taylor a reputation that could prove useful in many ways. 


She arranged for several work crews to visit the house and perform a shopping list of alterations and additions such as replace the standard door frames and doors with security doors that could take a direct hit from an armor piercing .50 caliber round and frames that could hold back anything that couldn't break down the  entire wall as well.  Next was a window crew that installed armored noise cancelling thermal resistant windows that could shrug off large caliber rounds and become instantly blackout windows shielding any farther activity behind them allowing those inside to escape. Once it was all sealed a five man team of experts who installed the security systems for sensitive industry installations and plumbers and tile men and cabinet makers; of course this meant that she must wait two weeks before she could occupy her new home and was forced to stay in the best Hotel in Cleveland.


Well all this work did give her an excuse to drive around the area antique shopping and testing the local fare so she didn’t complain instead enjoyed her nights seeking the center of the local night scene.  She did so in a Soccer Mom Minivan dressing herself to fit the part so she could move as unnoticed as possible in the daytime and at night she drove a Kia Soul looking more like the new local school teacher fresh out of college and on the prowl.