Rurik slumped against the wall. Kai had drained him, leaving just enough blood that he wouldn't die. He could feel the slow, steady thrum of the remaining blood flowing through him, the thump of his heart struggling to keep a steady beat. He was dizzy, light headed, unable to move, the effect as damaging as a drug designed to paralyse the limbs.
Unable to do anything more, he closed his eyes and focused on slowing his breath, to allow his blood to heal his body. A hundred years earlier, he would have surely died, but Kai had underestimated him, this time. Rurik wasn't so sure it would happen again, and while he mimicked sleep, his mind worked to consider ways he could contain Kai until he could figure out the expanse of the spell the vampire was under.
First and foremost, he had to figure out who, or what, was behind it. And why.