Scenting Hallowed Blood
“Her pose — elegant, one hand held up beside her chin holding a cigarette, her rolls of dark hair, her red lips. She could have been anything between thirty and forty years old. She was nearly one hundred and fifty — a Grigori dependent, once left to rot by mentors who abandoned her, now restored to vitality by Shemyaza.
‘If you’re not going to do anything about yourself, at least do something about the boy,’ she said.
Shem was lazing on the sagging sofa, staring listlessly at the TV. If the set... had possessed a remote control, Emma had no doubt he’d spend the entire day just flicking from channel to channel, absorbing nothing. She was beginning to feel out of her depth, what with trying to look out for the kids and keeping her senses alert for pursuit. She feared it greatly, having seen the shadowy figures who’d emerged onto the High Place back in Little Moor, just at the time she’d managed to drag Shemyaza away. Shem dismissed her anxieties. She had guessed he simply did not care what happened to him now.MoreLess
‘If you’re not going to do anything about yourself, at least do something about the boy,’ she said.
Shem was lazing on the sagging sofa, staring listlessly at the TV. If the set... had possessed a remote control, Emma had no doubt he’d spend the entire day just flicking from channel to channel, absorbing nothing. She was beginning to feel out of her depth, what with trying to look out for the kids and keeping her senses alert for pursuit. She feared it greatly, having seen the shadowy figures who’d emerged onto the High Place back in Little Moor, just at the time she’d managed to drag Shemyaza away. Shem dismissed her anxieties. She had guessed he simply did not care what happened to him now.MoreLess
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