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I took a deep breath "Hoe do it?" I asked

He stood and pushed the table aside Stepped forward until he was about a foot away He see There was a foul smell to him that I hadn’t noticed before, the sht hand and showedbut they looked sharp He raised his left hand and pressed the nails of the right into the fleshy tips of his left-hand fingers Then he used his other set of nails to ers in the sarunted I atching the blood drip froers and didn’t obey the co theers, all ten of the ainstmy hands free

"It hurts! "I howled

"Of course it does" He laughed "It hurta vampire was easy? Get used to the pain Much of it lies ahead"

He put a couple of ers in his mouth and sucked some blood out I watched as he rolled it around his ood blood," he said "We can proceed"

He pressed his fingers against mine, wound to wound For a few seconds there was a nu sensation and realized h ht

It was a strange, tingling feeling I felt his blood travel up ht arm, then down the side of my body and over to the left When it reachedpain and I al to Mr Crepsley and I could see hi

The pain lasted until Mr Crepsley’s blood crept downback into his body We remained joined for a couple more seconds, until he broke free with a shout I fell backward to the floor I was dizzy and felt sick

"Give ers," Mr Crepsley said I looked across and saw hi his "My spit will heal the wounds You will lose all your blood and die otherwise"

I glanced down atthem forth, I let the vaue over the tips

When he released them, the flow had stopped I wiped the leftover blood off on a rag I studiedacross thenize a vae a huers are the simplest and least painful method"

"Is that it?" I asked "Am I a half-vampire now?"

"Yes," he said

"I don’t feel any different," I told him

"It will take a few days for the effects to become apparent," he said "There is always a period of adjustreat otherwise"

"How do you become a full vampire?" I asked

"The saer, so more of the vampire’s blood enters your body"

"What will I be able to do with e into a bat?"

His laughter rocked the room "A bat!" he shrieked "You do not believe those silly stories, do you? How on Earth could so rat? Use your brain, boy We can nothan we can turn into ships, planes, or monkeys!"

"So what can we do?" I asked

He scratched his chin "There is too ht now," he said "We et the antidote before to, the serum will not work Besides, we have plenty of tirinned "You could say we have all the time in the world"