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.“Let’s start right here.This is the window where Shadow Girl first looked in to get a peek at you.”“I caught what was in her mind,” Natalia said.Dawn waited, but the new girl hesitated.Kiko rolled his eyes.“Nat’s too much of a lady to say it, but when the shadow thing saw you, she thought, ‘Well, fuck me!’ But it was a happy, excited ‘Well, fuck me!’ like what a hunter thinks when it spots its prey.Pure elation and anticipation.”“Never thought of myself as prey,” Dawn said.Watched.Tracked.Shit.“She’d been observing you way before you got into Eva’s flat,” Kiko said.As Dawn held back a shiver, he moved to number two written on some tape on the floor.“And here,” he said, pointing, “is where Shadow Girl landed after she crashed through the window.Now we find out that you were in for a real battle, Dawn.”Natalia spoke up.“She wanted you to fight her with all you had.We felt that this shadow thing takes great satisfaction in stalking, in trapping.She was going to capture you, Dawn.Question you.”Dawn had already known about the questioning part since Shadow Girl had taunted her with that bit, but she tried not to let the reminder creep her out, too.“Let’s get to the nitty-gritty,” she said, thinking they could be here all night if she allowed Kiko free rein to show off everything he and Natalia had sensed.“Is this shadow girl on the side of the vamps or is she a rival hunter?”“No confirmation either way,” Kiko said.Natalia was shaking her head.“What?” Dawn asked.“You disagree?”“Somewhat.I felt a vague defensive instinct in her.I would interpret it as her wishing to protect the vampires.”“Not the answer I was hoping for.”Somewhere in the house, she thought she heard a door slam, and she spun toward the room’s entrance.Costin? Had he already come back?Then her blood turned cold.Costin wasn’t a slammer.Frank had heard it, too, and he was already on his feet, his knit cap tossed to the ground as he headed toward the room’s exit.Dawn followed, a stake already drawn from its holster.“Stay in here,” she said to Kiko, who already had a revolver loaded with silver bullets in hand.He was in front of Natalia like a bodyguard.Dawn gave Frank the lead, since his vampire senses could pick out scents and sounds way beyond her reaches.The tripped alarm, she thought.Had an intruder decided that now was a good time to come out of hiding?Or did the team have company of a different sort?When Frank and she got to the foyer, they found the source of the sound.“Dawn!”It was a Friend, and from the inflection, Dawn could tell it was Evangeline.“Do you know who might’ve tripped that laser alarm?” Dawn asked.Maybe the slamming door had been caused by Evangeline’s windy speed after she’d reentered the house through one of their activated entrances.“It was due to none of the Friends,” the spirit said, her voice spinning, ethereal.“Dawn, we must—”She was drowned out by the forceful trills of other Friends as they entered the room, their jasmine swirling around Dawn and Frank.One even knocked down a pewter vase balanced on a shelf.“Lock down!” she said as she passed Dawn.“They’re coming!” said another.“And they’re not alone!”“Who? Vamps?” Even though Dawn had half expected them, she still couldn’t believe that this relatively flagrant Underground would be moronic enough to attack in public, whether it was the dead of night or not.“Charmed humans,” Evangeline said.“The vampires seem to be rounding them up!”Charmed humans?Dawn should’ve known.If the vampires were coming, smart ones wouldn’t be doing it so obviously at first—not until headquarters was broken down enough for them to easily enter, under quieter cover.The humans were probably going to do the dirty work for them.So.How did a person fight other humans who were on the side of vamps? How did a hunter avoid killing innocent bystanders caught in the crap?Frank strode to the weapons cache near the door, opened the safe, then extracted two machetes and a couple of earpieces, one of which he handed to Dawn.“Those vamps’re here to get Claudius,” he said calmly.“And they’re gonna be spanked for it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.“Let’s start right here.This is the window where Shadow Girl first looked in to get a peek at you.”“I caught what was in her mind,” Natalia said.Dawn waited, but the new girl hesitated.Kiko rolled his eyes.“Nat’s too much of a lady to say it, but when the shadow thing saw you, she thought, ‘Well, fuck me!’ But it was a happy, excited ‘Well, fuck me!’ like what a hunter thinks when it spots its prey.Pure elation and anticipation.”“Never thought of myself as prey,” Dawn said.Watched.Tracked.Shit.“She’d been observing you way before you got into Eva’s flat,” Kiko said.As Dawn held back a shiver, he moved to number two written on some tape on the floor.“And here,” he said, pointing, “is where Shadow Girl landed after she crashed through the window.Now we find out that you were in for a real battle, Dawn.”Natalia spoke up.“She wanted you to fight her with all you had.We felt that this shadow thing takes great satisfaction in stalking, in trapping.She was going to capture you, Dawn.Question you.”Dawn had already known about the questioning part since Shadow Girl had taunted her with that bit, but she tried not to let the reminder creep her out, too.“Let’s get to the nitty-gritty,” she said, thinking they could be here all night if she allowed Kiko free rein to show off everything he and Natalia had sensed.“Is this shadow girl on the side of the vamps or is she a rival hunter?”“No confirmation either way,” Kiko said.Natalia was shaking her head.“What?” Dawn asked.“You disagree?”“Somewhat.I felt a vague defensive instinct in her.I would interpret it as her wishing to protect the vampires.”“Not the answer I was hoping for.”Somewhere in the house, she thought she heard a door slam, and she spun toward the room’s entrance.Costin? Had he already come back?Then her blood turned cold.Costin wasn’t a slammer.Frank had heard it, too, and he was already on his feet, his knit cap tossed to the ground as he headed toward the room’s exit.Dawn followed, a stake already drawn from its holster.“Stay in here,” she said to Kiko, who already had a revolver loaded with silver bullets in hand.He was in front of Natalia like a bodyguard.Dawn gave Frank the lead, since his vampire senses could pick out scents and sounds way beyond her reaches.The tripped alarm, she thought.Had an intruder decided that now was a good time to come out of hiding?Or did the team have company of a different sort?When Frank and she got to the foyer, they found the source of the sound.“Dawn!”It was a Friend, and from the inflection, Dawn could tell it was Evangeline.“Do you know who might’ve tripped that laser alarm?” Dawn asked.Maybe the slamming door had been caused by Evangeline’s windy speed after she’d reentered the house through one of their activated entrances.“It was due to none of the Friends,” the spirit said, her voice spinning, ethereal.“Dawn, we must—”She was drowned out by the forceful trills of other Friends as they entered the room, their jasmine swirling around Dawn and Frank.One even knocked down a pewter vase balanced on a shelf.“Lock down!” she said as she passed Dawn.“They’re coming!” said another.“And they’re not alone!”“Who? Vamps?” Even though Dawn had half expected them, she still couldn’t believe that this relatively flagrant Underground would be moronic enough to attack in public, whether it was the dead of night or not.“Charmed humans,” Evangeline said.“The vampires seem to be rounding them up!”Charmed humans?Dawn should’ve known.If the vampires were coming, smart ones wouldn’t be doing it so obviously at first—not until headquarters was broken down enough for them to easily enter, under quieter cover.The humans were probably going to do the dirty work for them.So.How did a person fight other humans who were on the side of vamps? How did a hunter avoid killing innocent bystanders caught in the crap?Frank strode to the weapons cache near the door, opened the safe, then extracted two machetes and a couple of earpieces, one of which he handed to Dawn.“Those vamps’re here to get Claudius,” he said calmly.“And they’re gonna be spanked for it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]