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2021-09-02 07:01:53Bruce and I stood at the end of the rutted dirt path that passed for a road in the empty clearing. There was just enough room for Garth to position Bruce’s SUV in front of the opening in a group of boulders. We were thankful we’d decided to use his SUV instead of the rental car. All eyes were on Magdalena as she touched the boulders to get a sense of where they might have gone from there, but the trail just stopped.
“I can’t get a sense of where she is anymore. She isn’t sending any more telepathic messages to Elsa... I don’t know,” she sighed.
“How about you,” Bruce said as he looked at Garth. “Can you pick up their scent?”
“A little, but not enough to follow,” Garth muttered.
Garth was angry with the situation. Never before had he been outsmarted by a vampire. The fact that they were mutant-vampires made it even worse.
Bruce pressed his nose agai
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I sat in the far side of my living room and watched Jess move amongst us. She was doing her best to hide her animosity toward almost everyone in the room, while she served ham sandwiches and beer. It was a simple fare, but a welcome one for stomachs that shamelessly announced the fact that we hadn’t eaten for over twelve hours. Magdalena declined the sandwich but gladly accepted the beer.We’d spent the better part of the last hour in deep conversation about a solution to the situation. Not only did we have to find a way to rescue Shen and Tatyana, but now we had to face the fact that Jessica was dangerously close to becoming a vampire. I recognized the signs well from my days of being with Mie-Lien. My heart felt like it was ripped in pieces at the thought of such a thing happening to poor Jess. She didn’t deserve it. She’d never played a role in the hunt for vampires. In fact, she’d argued and fought with me continually about
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Tatyana sat at the left in the last seat near the end of the twelve-foot mahogany dining table and stared at the empty chairs. It had to have been at least thirty minutes since she’d been pulled from her room and seated at this empty room. She was more than a little restless and irritable.The table was exquisitely set. She picked up the gold rimmed, white porcelain dinner plate and turned it over to inspect the stamp on the back. It was made by Waterford. Setting the plate down carefully Tatyana reached for a wine goblet and turned it in the light.Vintage Waterford, she mused.She was aware of only one of Wadim’s den members that was obsessed with Waterford crystal and china; especially vintage.The sound of footsteps approaching caught her attention and she quickly replaced the goblet.She sat proud and erect as the dinner party entered the room. She did her best to disguise her revulsion when Gyozo b
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She was barely able to hear the door open and close. Whoever entered did so with the utmost care to go unnoticed. Tatyana braced herself as she listened to the newcomer’s footsteps scuff lightly across the thick, ruby colored Persian carpet. The average human would probably not have been able to hear her visitor’s approach at all. Her naturally acute hearing was fine honed over her years of captivity. She was certain that hearing the approach of the enemy so that she could have time to hide was often all that saved her from the fate of so many others.Standing as immobile as possible, Tatyana closed her eyes to put her third sight to work. The hazy image of a tall, slender man waved before her. He looked young, perhaps in his early thirties. It was difficult to tell if he was a vampire or human. His image kept flickering. This was something that rarely happened when she used her visionary abilities. That fact,
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Magdalena watched Elsa pace the small balcony through the dirty pane of the sliding door. The woman may be getting up in years, but she still carried herself like royalty. Magdalena wondered about the priestess’s heritage. The high cheekbones that accentuated full shapely lips hinted of familiarity. It haunted the vympire. There was something important she needed to remember; something very, very important.“Can I get you anything?” Jess asked as she knelt down in front of Magdalena and removed the scarf from her neck. “Are you hungry?”The raw puncture wounds on Jess’s neck turned Magdalena’s stomach. She’d never been this close to an open wound of a human for this long. It was unsettling and truly a test of her endurance.“Please, no. I don’t drink human blood,” Magdalena said with a wince. “Cover your wounds.”
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