Throat
“I said, waiting for Sagan to react. This time his face didn’t change.
“Real vampires. You’ve met them. Here, like locally?”
“Yeah.”
“Blood-sucking, coffin-dragging—”
“They aren’t like that. They’re … good people.”
“Good people who run around in the streets at night, killing—”
“But they don’t kill anybody,” I said.
I told him about Lena, Donne, and Anton, along with the warring vampire factions. Sagan caught on quickly—it’s not that I was afraid he wouldn’t, but more concerned that he might blow... a circuit somewhere in his head because of the all-out strangeness of everything he had to absorb. So I fed it to him in manageable chunks.
Sagan took a long inhale and let it out slowly. “Any more stuff like this, and I’m liable to lift off,” he said.
“Hey, I’ve got an idea,” I said. “Let’s take a break. There’s still a little light left.”
The sun was almost down; the state park would be closing soon. But it was great to see the Stone House Hotel in the daylight for a change.MoreLess
“Real vampires. You’ve met them. Here, like locally?”
“Yeah.”
“Blood-sucking, coffin-dragging—”
“They aren’t like that. They’re … good people.”
“Good people who run around in the streets at night, killing—”
“But they don’t kill anybody,” I said.
I told him about Lena, Donne, and Anton, along with the warring vampire factions. Sagan caught on quickly—it’s not that I was afraid he wouldn’t, but more concerned that he might blow... a circuit somewhere in his head because of the all-out strangeness of everything he had to absorb. So I fed it to him in manageable chunks.
Sagan took a long inhale and let it out slowly. “Any more stuff like this, and I’m liable to lift off,” he said.
“Hey, I’ve got an idea,” I said. “Let’s take a break. There’s still a little light left.”
The sun was almost down; the state park would be closing soon. But it was great to see the Stone House Hotel in the daylight for a change.MoreLess
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