Eliot had been working a long time to get his home back in working order. His family had spent millions of dollars to rebuild the place. And Eliot himself had gone to Atharim sources to fund the changes he wanted to incorporate into their new safe haven. With the old Regus dead, and the new one still at the Vatican, Moscow was once again his and his alone.
The mansion itself was rebuilt from the ground up. The crystal showcase still available to those who could afford admission, in addition to a fine dining restaurant and a high-class bar to round out the cover for what lay in the depths of the mansion itself.
Where the Atharim had failed before Eliot intended to insure that no outsider breached their walls. Everything went high tech including the new security system he installed. Durante Securities was new to the game, but the security offered was better than any other. Round the clock security by Artificial Intelligence and Human's alike. It was far more complicated than Eliot understood, but the sales rep had sold him on it within the first ten minutes of their conversation. And he wasn't even pitching the facial recognition software until the end.
But it wasn't just the security system that went modern -- it was the entire system inside the bunker as well. The libraries were now being digitized from the Vatican. It had taken a long conversation about how they could lose everything and then some in a fire at the Vatican. If anyone ever found out the breadth of knowledge stored there. Not that was the reason for the fire -- the godling who started the fire was still at large. Not that they really knew since they'd come in with a disguise and left with flames and smoke in their wake.
It was a time Eliot didn't really want to relive so he made plans and preperations for the new headquarters.
The armory was as high tech as one could get. The barracks had semi comfortable beds and plenty of space for storage for each bunk.
The infirmary had the latest and greatest technology available as well as a research lab adjoining it. He had long since decided that the Atharim needed to do more than just kill. There might be additional things one could learn from the monsters they hunted. And Dr. Angelika Woźniak was a key to getting that up and running. She had specifications he had met and then some. He hoped that she would like the upgrade and the recognition for what she did.
Eliot had bigger plans than just modernizing the safe house. He had plans to make Moscow safe for all Atharim too. But first he had to deal with all the niceties of opening up the Baccarrat Mansion again.
The cutting of the ribbon ceremony was being held and his father was present to cut the red velvet ribbon strung across their doorway and the world would be allowed to see the rebuilt family history. There would always be a Baccarrat in Moscow -- for as long as any of the family kept on living. And they would always back the Atharim. Even if Eliot had his little secret, the Atharim were their legacy and he was proud to be one even if he could never join the hunt.