Underground Vampire
“Following her, Jesse felt like a merchant vessel escorted by a man-o-war, completely protected and mostly irrelevant.
They’d entered the Underground through the Blue Anchor, nodding to Mr. Finkelstein as they went by. If the skid row drinkers thought it strange that a fashionably dressed lady and Jesse went through the tavern and down the basement steps, they kept it to themselves. This time when they entered the Underground Arabella openly walked down the sidewalks with no effort at discreti...on. Again, Jesse tried to navigate and thought they were heading toward University but he couldn’t be sure. Asked what street they were under brought a cryptic, “The Underground has its own geography.”
“How could that be?” he demanded, hurrying to keep up with her as she turned into a passage he couldn’t see in the darkness.
“In the rebuilding after the fire, streets down here were rearranged,” she said. “What the hell does that mean?” he blurted out, but she ignored the question with a curt “try to keep up”MoreLess
They’d entered the Underground through the Blue Anchor, nodding to Mr. Finkelstein as they went by. If the skid row drinkers thought it strange that a fashionably dressed lady and Jesse went through the tavern and down the basement steps, they kept it to themselves. This time when they entered the Underground Arabella openly walked down the sidewalks with no effort at discreti...on. Again, Jesse tried to navigate and thought they were heading toward University but he couldn’t be sure. Asked what street they were under brought a cryptic, “The Underground has its own geography.”
“How could that be?” he demanded, hurrying to keep up with her as she turned into a passage he couldn’t see in the darkness.
“In the rebuilding after the fire, streets down here were rearranged,” she said. “What the hell does that mean?” he blurted out, but she ignored the question with a curt “try to keep up”MoreLess
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