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“You do?”
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Nepthys could hardly believe her.
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“It is.
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He should be.
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I hope that you can do a better job than the last lot.”
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She sat up, running her hands along her pale, round thighs.
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“All right, then.
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Let me see if I can find him.”
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Isis closed her eyes and lifted her hands.
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A dark glow coalesced around her palms.
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Amy leaned forward, looking amazed.
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The glow reflected on her pink face, casting a sickly pallor over her heartbeat-strong cheeks.
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Tiny drops of blood began to seep out of Isis’ palms as her brow creased.
| 2 |
Her candy lips twisted into a frown.
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The dark glow grew stronger and larger, filling the air for about a foot around her hands.
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In her palms, the droplets of blood swelled into small pools.
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The dark glow began to flicker, and Isis’ frown of concentration became one of worry.
| 0 |
The pools in her hands grew deeper.
| 0 |
She didn’t shed a bead of sweat, and I didn’t even see her draw a breath, but the glow around her hands shuddered like a stubborn candleflame.
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Then her fingers tensed and her arms began to shake.
| 2 |
The blood in her palms, still filling up, began to ripple.
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He glanced at me with honest concern, probably the first honest moment he’d shown me: ‘Is she all right?’
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‘Is she all right?’
| 2 |
Her hands twitched and a drop of blood shook out, splashing on the crease of her thigh and hanging to one strand of the black hair between her legs.
| 2 |
She gasped and the dark glow went out, taking the blood with it in a flash of heat and red steam.
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Isis collapsed on the fur, strings cut.
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Now Nepthys lunged forward, took her by the arms.
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“Isis, what happened?
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She shook her head, rubbing her face into the white fur and murmuring something.
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“What did you say?”
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She rolled onto her back, her arms crossed tightly over her chest.
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For the first time, she looked vulnerable.
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When she finally spoke, I had to lean close to hear her.
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“I found your vampire,” she said, “but he might know that someone’s looking for him.
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He’s taken great pains to keep himself hidden.
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You should look for him at Dvorov’s as quickly as you can.”
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She turned to me with tired sympathy.
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“I didn’t see a girl with him.
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Hurry, though, and you might find him before he leaves.”
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A twitch of her fingers summoned her pale servants.
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“One of these will lead you out.”
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I looked back to see Nepthys whispering something to her.
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He stood to go, but she caught his sleeve and pulled him back for a moment.
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There was a terrific echo, each beat reverberating inside of the next, and the old stained-glass windows rattled in their frames.
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I turned back to the door.
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“Come on, Amy,” I said, “he’ll be along soon.”
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When we got there, another pale servant was waiting for us with a box of dark stained wood.
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He offered it to Nepthys, who opened the box: on velvet lining, a wooden hammer and two stakes.
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“Mountain ash,”
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Closing the box, he paused beside the open door and looked back at me.
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“I really hope we find your Rachel,”
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“I really hope we find your Rachel,” he said.
| 1 |
“I know a quick way to Dvorov’s,”
| 1 |
“I know a quick way to Dvorov’s,” said Nepthys.
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“I bet he’s kicking himself now for not having a way to contact me.”
| 0 |
The pulse from inside made the building sound like a giant heart.
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“Yo, my man Nep!
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You got the sucker already?”
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“No, but we got a tip that he might be in your club.
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Have you seen him?”
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“Here, man?
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I haven’t had a vampire here since you and – ” Nepthys shot a wicked look at him.
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“Anyway, long time, man.”
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“That’s odd.
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On the dance floor, people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air.
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Do you mind if we check it out anyway?
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I have a real feeling that he’s in here somewhere.”
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Dvorov glanced over his shoulder, a little nervous.
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“I guess, man, but be quick.
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We’ll be in and out in a minute.”
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Nepthys stepped in and Dvorov walked us towards the dance floor.
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Dvorov asked us.
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“No, he said that his research was purely academic, not for hunters.”
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“Bummer.
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I guess I probably should’ve known, though.
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I mean, he is kinda tight about that stuff.”
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He didn’t look very surprised.
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“Anyway, this is the dance floor, man.
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Good luck.”
| 1 |
Then I saw the bar on the other side of the crowd and knew where to start looking.
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I danced with Rachel for a while, but then something by the bar seemed to be pulling her eyes.
| 2 |
I tried to slip along the edge of the crowd.
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Things with scales and claws kept flailing against me, pressing me into the wall, but I took a breath and kept moving.
| 2 |
My nose filled with a reek of thick sweat.
| 0 |
The music began to build, and a strobe came on.
| 3 |
Somewhere toward the center of the dance floor, I heard a howl that sent bitter winds under my clothing – for a second, I was back with my family in Russia, hiding from the cold.
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Then I felt a tug on the back of my shirt and noticed that Amy was following me.
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I gathered her under my arm.
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Dvorov was somewhere behind me, too, negotiating delicately through his patrons.
| 1 |
Just in front of me, a massive thing slammed into the wall, sending up a cloud of granite dust.
| 2 |
It slumped to the floor and I realized that it was a werewolf.
| 2 |
Its haunches twitched in time to the music.
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As it started to rise, a man with thick, scaled skin stretched across rippling muscles leapt on him.
| 0 |
She told me that she was heading for a drink and slipped out of the crowd.
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I thought that my odds were better on the dance floor.
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Holding Amy in my arms as we ducked between the crush of dancers, I started to wonder if the chances of finding this vampire were even good enough to merit this.
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A cold thing with countless, writhing tentacles fell against me, thrashing as if in the throes of a drug overdose, tripping me and clutching at my limbs.
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A woman who could have been an elf twitched and jerked beside me, fingers trembling at the torn edges of her clothing.
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The creature blocking my vision moved back, but I had seen all that I needed to see.
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A bleeding, eyeless thing shuddered and beat its arms against me, but I ducked around it and toward the bar.
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