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You are a dahtly distorted cos in the pizza were supposed to keep you out for twenty-four hours"

I’d been drugged That explained the taste and the bindings I’d never have let et in this situation otherwise The pizza was delayed, cold, and tasted like crap You’d think I would have been suspicious Sheesh And while I was still a little thickheaded, I was starting to be able to think through the sedative-induced fog Let’s hear it for the vampire metabolism Or maybe siren Or both Whatever, I ake But I couldn’t do anything Yet

"They haven’t even had tiet to the church yet, let alone link it to you and declare you a danger I haven’t had tih She stood behind thein her sensible gray suit, arainst her arht But that would bring your olf into things andhim involved until after sunrise tomorrow" My olf? Kevin wasn’t anywhere close to ers druher dose--" She turned and walked fro, perhaps only a minute or two "Ivy, Vicki, are you here?" I tried to keep et picked up by the roo equipment Of course Greene had talked freely, so she had probably turned it off But I decided to be quiet, just in case

The teing in the air I wasn’t surprised Ghosts are more likely toe terror I could alhThen warn Reverend Al Get Gran and Moainst the confining straitjacket with all of th to strain the metal of the table back in the lab It should be easy to Hulk my way out of a contraption of , of course, it wasn’t bespelled Which it probably was But it wasn’t like I had a glut of options So I struggled, and I pulled, and succeeded in just about pulling my own arms fro to give I strained harder To hell with it My shoulders would heal I wanted, needed, this da off

As if froulls And suddenly I knew I had called pohen I fell asleep at the office, had influenced Dr Scott And I could do it again I concentrated as I pulled, thinking of Dr Scott, of Gerry and every other male I kneorked at Birchwoods I didn’t knohat ti, but I had to try Because here ca briskly against the linoleu throughHer breathing, harsh and loud And, fainter, in the distance, but closing fast, running footsteps

She lunged atwith unnatural speed, I rolled, kicking at her knee with both feet The blow connected hard, and with the extra strength behind it her knee didn’t just give, it tore, the bone breaking through the skin with a spray of blood

Screa nearly severed Blood was everywhere, the scent nearly overpowering She grabbed her leg, trying to apply pressure, but it wasn’t working

My storowled, my eyes started to bleed red I could see the needle, far fro pulse as she stared atfear My arms were free, the straitjacket torn apart, but I couldn’t re infro herself with her good leg, a trail of sainst the stark white linoleuht every instinct with the one re shred of humanity left to me

The door to the observation room slammed open Gerry and Dr Scott burst into the roo hard from exertion They took in the scene on the other side of the ith a single horrified glance

"Thank God!" Greene shouted "Save one feral!"

"Liar" My voice sounded not the least bit huonize her" Dr Scott’s voice was still a little breathy, but cal his talent to try to reach the part of me that was still human, to soothe and cal The police are on the way here and to the church You’ve done nothing wrong, and we’ll find proof of that But you must hold on"

I turned to look at him, the move to follow the ordersto send Gerry to get you so in to treat Dr Greene’s injury I can’t let her die Can you let h clenched jaws