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While Kate was dead to the world, a lot happened None of it good

Graffiti appeared all over the city &039;3-1&039; Or, spelling it out, &039;Vaather, unconnected people were responsible Wareance after their failed atte, nasty- over a petty lead

The score wasn&039;t likely to stay level long Soon, it wouldn&039;t be a football result It&039;d be a rugby result Then, it would be i-lived folk walking around, Kate thought they&039;d have learned soroup weren&039;t the only defenders of huers wasn&039;t the only va

Enoch Poas everywhere,interviews He called for calm in a manner calculated to inflame the extremists he loftily disavowed Marcus Obadiah, a defrocked priest, said outright what Powell hinted at, declaring Holy War against the uncleanpure humans and should be exorcised with fire, silver and the stake

Someone had cheekily vandalised the Sir Francis Varney Me a hole in the chest of the statue of the former Viceroy of India - a reference to the Second Mutiny, when the unlikeable Varney was strapped over the barrel of a gun and had a cannonball fired through him Two eccentrics, Sean Manchester and David Farrant, were picked up by the Kingstead Night Watch while trying to break into Lucy Westenra&039;s long-since-vacated fairl re fallen out with each other, Manchester and Farrant were conducting an entertaining feud in the letter columns of the local paper Poor Lucy - if she&039;d been let lie, the world ate delivery tanker was hijacked by allons of blood poured into the sewers That would congeal into a vile lagoon Old rus which lived under the city The blood was said to be the staple diet of the Black Swine of Hampstead, the India-Rubber Men and the Ghost of Guy Fawkes

Pro Lord Ruthven, Baron Meinster and - would you credit it? - Paul Durward, were called on to condethat his quiet killings were driven off the front pages by public bloodletting In his absence, Rogers became the Bloodthirsty Monster of 1968

The papers ran photos Bellaver issued of the war from Hendon with a smile, but darkened and retouched to make her a cross between Myra Hindley, Cruella de Vil and Graf von Orlok

Kate had i co Craven a cop-killing tearaho deserved what he got and a heroic va womankind from monstrous affronts The fact that Craven&039;s victi out his duty to protect the public was so seldom mentioned she suspected newspaper proprietors had issued a dictat that this was to be suppressed The story was out in distorted for it

The Manfred Co depositions fro - of course - with Enoch Bloody Powell The real action would be on the streets rather than in Whitehall co clever-clever jokes about the &039;Sangfroid Cos in Soho basements to examine testimony from exotic dancers Kate had heard rumours that James Manfred was a private connoisseur of kink

Jessica&039;s granddad was stuck in jail but protesters were calling for the &039;heroes of huht had killed Kate instead of Griffin, they&039;d be out on bail Despite the papers, the Metropolitan Police couldn&039;t let people who et aith a rap on the knuckles and a &039;don&039;t do it again, son&039; Peter Craven, a minor, couldn&039;t be named by the press in connection with the murder he&039;d committed, but could in connection with his own death - pro circumlocution which served to confuse the ation from the Socialist Vaers, though itlady as also a nosferatu sister The presence of rival protestors suggested ihts which would , Kate&039;s new best friend, said she&039;d persuade her Paul to stage a rally for peace between the waret John Lennon and John Blaylock to appear and headline a free concert in Hyde Park Kate had to admit Jess and Paul made a pretty poster couple for human-vampire love, but reckoned peace had already had its chance Everyone was picking sides for war Also, she didn&039;t need to hear Blaylock sing &039;The Laughing Gnoain

The worst neas that Bellaver was out Soet at Craven He was the obvious candidate Over half his personnel - pretty much the only vampire detectives in the Met - were suspended or reassigned Nor B Division He kne to ation, so there was no progress on the Carol Thatcher/Laura Bellows killings A the coppers in the frame as replacements for Bellaver were Charlie Barlow of the Nen Task Force and James Anderton of the Cheshire Constabulary, war i vaated by va Vampire Slayer unitsyobs in Beano ainst vaht hours and well into the evening With the Circle of Light busted, a group calling itself The 986 - after that song - was active They were careful about being caught, inducing bouts of amnesia in witnesses which Marcus Monserrat couldn&039;t cure The Unigate blood tanker stunt was one of theirs There would be an equal or disproportionate response from the vampire cons and searching for mystic inner peace last month formed little circles around Carpathian Guard left-behinds whose expertise in guerilla resistance was a prized co, patrolled suburban streets, clai they&039;d protect any viper hassled by The 986 The shady entrepreneur Hogarth - Big Bloodsucker Hog - put extra undead bouncers on his nightclubs Ile

According to Nezuh-level politics Richard Jeperson had to get out of bed, while the Lovelies took to the corridors of power in order to dissuade pin-striped dolts from courses of idiocy Even their powers of fascination were strained Doubtless chuckling at his luck, Harold Wilson was presently on holiday in the Scilly Isles, waving his pipe at reporters and posing in a Ganex mac which didn&039;t suit the clihan in the hot seat as acting Head of Government All police leave was cancelled The Hoarlic spray in bulk These preparatoryblood in the water, made noises about a snap election He came back early from his holiday in Scotland to make the Prime Minister look bad

Carol and Laura were still dead Whoever was responsible was still at large As of now, only Kate Reed see them to book