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Froet down ten floors and through a ring of decadent vauards to reach the

My silver fah hes Tool and Vaht arers The silver reo-inch diaas version of brass knuckles

Well! How had Snow’s unwanted gift known to produce the glittering knuckle spikes? They echoed the diaroup-hoo Eerie

Snow had sent me the lock of his albino hair as a play onit incoat Like a striking serpent, the soft tendril of hair had le on my arm with a permanent lock on me, unable to be sawn or burned off Whether or not the silver fa to various body parts and becoed into protective adorn protected at the cost of being invaded

Once again the ic Silver knuckles were even better than brass for punching hts Hotel

It was just like a heartless businesshes’s ilk to have ht my way out of it Cesar Cicereau, the olf mob alpha boss, wasn’t very likeable, but he had a heart as big as the Tin Man’s cohes

I decided to take the stairs I’d have the advantage of height when I ran into the vareat for kicks and full-body shoves I knew frohes employed deliberately la Still, even debased vampires were unhumanly powerful

Of course there was no way to avoid announcing my descent as my shoes clattered down the dozens of concrete steps The 1001 Knights Hotel, Howard Hughes’s hidden headquarters, was supposedly abandoned and ripe for razing I wondered if it was just Hughes’s economic clout or some eerie supernatural mojo that kept this pri e cry announced a varabbed a railing withat his throat, and flashed my spiked silver brass knuckles across his brow bone

The blood ran down in sheets, blinding him as he tumbled backward

into a second vamp, who pushed him aside and down like deadwood

I hadn’t expected the blinding flood of blood, but I suppose well-fed vauy’s fangs were already rusted by an eveningI grabbed the railing with both hands and pushed out that leg with allto land supine on the concrete steps, the edges sla my spine in a couple places, both blows likely to hurt like hell, not to ive my feet so off and upward, right into the snarling vas The va up too far and falling The stair edges wouldn’t wound his iain and ran down after the tued va hitdown the stairs faster and faster, out of control,as soon as I found it

I heard a disgusting slurping sound behindin the ue would stick to the icy ht And blood would be hot too