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Raiding Shooter&039;s Hill Lost Property again, Kate acquired a tatty floral parasol which o out in the prenoonday sun

Her car was parked at St Bartolph&039;s

She avoided conversation with any of her colleagues in the press and set off on foot

As was e She&039;d seen so much blood - vaht that her need was as sharp as her teeth

In a newsagents, she bought three half-pints in 9d cardboard Tetra-Paks The shop kept vampire stock in the chill cabinet with thewait for breakfast to warh to be drinkable Cold blood was like an electric shock to the fangs and gave her brain-freeze So as not to seeht an Aztec bar and tinted clip-ons for her foraged glasses

The papers were out, but she was too depressed to want to read their coverage of the night&039;s grief As she fondled a Tetra-Pak to warered by the rack outside the shop and took in headlines Early editions led with the police papers caer killed by a vampire policewoman while in custody

She bit off the corner of the tetrahedonal carton and sucked

The newsagent&039;s boy, as restocking the paper rack, looked alarmed He also looked delicious

She squeezed the Tetra-Pak and gulped down blood

It ca to uely sweet aftertaste, froulants put in to make it keep When in funds, she&039;d sometimes treat herself to Gold Top at ten bob a half-pint It was milked from human donors (&039;fresh from the neck&039;)

By the tilutted herself and was aluarded last night&039;s scorched, bloody battlefield He had his helmet on but was in shirtsleeves Soether a necklace of buttercups and daisies and hung it around his neck

She told hiht have forgotten he was stuck here

&039;I&039;m not surprised, Katie,&039; he said &039;I heard what happened with Donna&039;

She gave Fred her Aztec bar out of pity He told her she had a little smear around her arettes and found her Mini in the car park Students favoured Mini Coopers, Mini Mokes and Mini Vans Her plain red car stood out amid psychedelic paint jobs, artificial eyelashes for headla covered with staring x-ray eyes had &039;the BOPMOBILE&039; written on its bonnet

A rack of scooters wouldthe Vespas and Lambrettas, like a wolf in the flock, was a ly approve - a chopped Norton Commando, with stars and stripes on the petrol-tank

An A on a British bike?

&039;Had to leaveout of the shadows under a tree &039;Namaste, Lady Kate&039;