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West was apoplectic &039;Everything isPretorius to a coe &039;If we do not as yet understand a process, it is because we have not perceived the rules which govern its working The dead ic in it at all A long-lived, as-yet unidentified virus - perhaps mutated by radium deposits in the Carpathians - will doubtless prove to be at the bottom of it If this can be harnessed, then it will be possible for all to survive death at no cost&039;

Pretorius s have you been searching for your virus? The idea is not even original with him, Mademoiselle He was cataroundwork for this fruitless detour And Moreau was a collaborator with Henry Jekyll&039;

&039;I know,&039; she said, interrupting the tirade

She had met Dr Jekyll and Dr Moreau

&039;Well, yes, of course you do Before Jekyll, there was Van Helsing And there&039;ve been others: Alexander Fle into their o round and round, looking for an answer&039;

&039;Miss Dieudonne,&039; began West, &039;do you think yourself a natural being?&039;

Pretorius raised a feathery eyebrow and bid her answer

&039;No more nor less than I did when I ar path It&039;s not that we don&039;t understand how vampires live We don&039;t understand how humans live We can approxilass jars We can reanimate dead tissue We can try to sell our souls to Satan, for all the good it will do We can have everything, except an answer that makes sense&039;

&039;I refuse to accept that&039;

&039;Refuse all you er than you I learned o that it was futile to try to explain The deeper you get, the less sense there is, the ressing to alchemy,&039; stuttered West &039;What is next, s-s-sorcery?&039;

Pretorius grinned like a gargoyle &039;If that is the route wethe unknowable Perhaps we s do notfro fro can be understood, Einstein maintained&039;

&039;Not at the end he didn&039;t At the end, nobody claims to understand Talk all you will of viruses and radiuoblins, but the fact is that there are creatures who cast no reflection in a looking glass That cannot be explained In the eighty years the world has been forced to accept that there are indeed such things as vareater mind than yours, Herbert West Remember Max Planck&039;s Black Blood Refractive Postulate? What would you give for the laws of optics and refraction? Or any other scientific law? Not a farthing Things that can&039;t be, are If there are gods, they are irl here defies all your atteorise, define, confine, or constrain And what are you going to do about it, bleat?&039;

&039;You are wrong,&039; West said quietly

&039;I think not,&039; said Pretorius

Genevieve&039;s htened her Could be she was really afraid that he was right? She&039;d outgrown a youthful terror that she ht be a damned soul But if she was not a creature of science, then as she? What was left?

&039;To the void,&039; toasted Pretorius, lifting his gin &039;To the chaos we must learn to love&039;

&039;Mademoiselle Dieudonne is to make an identification,&039; proh the debate without co

Pretorius reached under a black blanket and produced an object It was Dracula&039;s head, still unrotted, eyes angry

&039;Is this him?&039;

Genevieve nodded

&039;You have to say it,&039; Pretorius said &039;Officially&039;

&039;That&039;s Dracula,&039; she said

&039;Quelle surprise,&039; Pretorius said, tossing the head aside like a turnip &039;I don&039;t like to speculate without fully consulting ue West, but I think it&039;s safe to say the old bastard&039;s truly dead Is there anything else?&039;

Genevieve looked at the Sergeant He shrugged

&039;I think you can leave et my forensic report in the next week I doubt it will be of any use to you, or indeed anyone Good day&039;

They were required to leave