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Vic shook his head "No, he don’t Eddie thinks he’s hearing the voice of God in his head Eddie’s this whole- child of Jesus, so the Man’s been riffing off that, twisting his faith evenson of Heaven or soer "Sweet"
"Point is, if one of us--especially one of your bunch--kills Mike, then what he is, his essence will be released to the whole town Once that happens every stick, stone, and blade of grass will be like a holy weapon It be like everything was radioactive--none of you could even walk here, and the Man wouldn’t be able to rise"
"That’s what being a dhampyr means?"
There was a flicker of hesitation before Vic answered, "It’s part of what it means It’s in the folklore, in the traditions I don’t want to get it into right now, either…that’s not part of your end of things except that you just make sure your crowd doesn’t put the chomp on him We clear on that?" Vic pursed his lips for a et the job done by, say, next week, then I’ll just take a baseball bat to the kid’s knees just so he’s not in the ga to do that for some time Kid’s a serious disappointment"
"Maybe he has too much of his father in him"
"Watch your mouth--"
"Not hiical father Maybe he picked up the pussy goody-two-shoes gene or soly "Maybe Genetics and the supernatural make a weird cocktail You can sure as hell bet no one’s ever studied it, so all of us, even the Man, are o Sos’ll turn out"
"In a pinch you could always handcuff the little punk to the radiator co out Ever thought of so as simple as that, Einstein?"
"Of course I have" Vic felt his face flush because it was so siht the situation So, apparently, had the Man "We’re getting off the point here About the only thing we h we’d both better hope that our little bit of stage dressing is going to do the trick"
"We gotta consider spin control here Crow and that faggot reporter saw too much down in the Hollow We have to keep hie to force him to keep his "
"Be a tricky play, Sport Do it too soon it would ot to remember that Croas a cop and he’s still cop-connected There’s ten thousand ways that could go south on us On the other hand, if ait too long he’ll probably be poking his nose where it don’t belong"
"That Guthrie bitch probably knohat Boyd is…or was, I mean"
"Yeah, damn it" Vic sipped his drink "We have to slon any attes I have the Man’s house rigged, but that’s only if they get there closer to the Wave Until then we have toscrews up the tourist flow"
"If we have to we can move the nest out of there Or we can tweak the scene,it as a hideout That’ll sell if Polk can handle playing an actual cop"
"Polk’ll do whatever he’s told, but there’s another potential player in all this and he’s someone people will listen to--that Jew doctor…Weinstock"
"What about him? We stole Boyd’s body…he don’t have jack shit"
"Don’t you ever watch CSI or any of them shows?"
"No, jackass, I actually have a life"
"Not any moer’s lip twitched and they both burst out laughing Ruger beat the arm of his chair as he howled and Vic had to set down his drink to keep fro it down his shirtfront
"Okay, okay, that’s one for you, you son of a bitch," Ruger said as the laughter died down "Get to where you were going, though How’s the doctor going to be a problem?"
"Forensic evidence He autopsied those two cops Boyd killed Castle and Cowan He’s got to have lab reports and shit And Polk told us they hadyour body…what if there’s tape of Cowan and Castle getting up to go out for a stroll?"