Wakefield
“It is in fact nighttime now, a rainy night about ten o’clock, and Wakefield has just concluded his deal with the Devil. Energized by that encounter, he grabs an umbrella and, as is his habit, heads for the corner bar, his home away from home. He bumps into a mob of tourists obstructing the sidewalk. They are clustered around a caped guide, leader of a ghost tour. They look sad, wet, lost, and a little scared. Adhesive badges identify them as members of the group so that nonpaying customers can’...t attach themselves to the tour for free.
All the tour guides in the city have their own stories, and ghosts to go with them, and they are fiercely, even combatively, competitive. Rumbles can break out between the costumed guides, and often do: silk-caped vampires attack other silk-caped vampires, and tourists sometimes get hurt in the process. Ordinarily, Wakefield avoids these groups like the plague that they are. This guide seems to be pointing directly at him, but Wakefield knows that the gesture is meant for the building behind him, the city’s first icehouse, now a hotel where the ghosts of Confederate soldiers make frequent appearances.MoreLess
All the tour guides in the city have their own stories, and ghosts to go with them, and they are fiercely, even combatively, competitive. Rumbles can break out between the costumed guides, and often do: silk-caped vampires attack other silk-caped vampires, and tourists sometimes get hurt in the process. Ordinarily, Wakefield avoids these groups like the plague that they are. This guide seems to be pointing directly at him, but Wakefield knows that the gesture is meant for the building behind him, the city’s first icehouse, now a hotel where the ghosts of Confederate soldiers make frequent appearances.MoreLess
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