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This one rose, his i with static like a channel poorly tuned, and moved toward ed was enor, and as heavy as the nize hiht This wasn’t Mickey Riley, the gangster whose grave had been disturbed, whose skull had been stolen, whose ht Riley was a bruiser, with a face to match
This apparition was tall and slender, with pale skin, a narrow face, and a thin nose topped by small, round spectacles His hair was dark and pushed back frooatee neatly tri overcoat, and looked like a man from a completely different century
In my time as a vampire, I’d seen eyes both hard and cold I’d seen hate and spitefulness, distrust and ignorance But I’d never seen the cold and steely emptiness I saw in the eyes of thebut hilanced at the humans
Matt still watched his viewscreen Roz had pulled out a small black device, which she pointed at it Robin stared at the ghost ide and hungry eyes, a scientist facing down the object of his obsession
"Get closer," Robin told Roz without shifting his gaze "Use the communication facilitator See if it will talk to us"
Coured, since Robin’s words drew the ghost’s attention, his head snapping in their direction
"Do not get closer," I said, and put up a hand "Back away toward the door"
"Not doing that," Robin said, chin firm "You didn’t hire us so we’d run, and we can’t evaluate froe, perform a temporality analysis--all of it"
We also didn’t hire them to die in our base could take down an ile blow, the humans wouldn’t haveher arm "Get them out of here"
Her eyes ide and shocked, but she nodded, grabbed their hands, and tugged them across the rooot the ghost
I knew Ethan would object--it was instinctive, protective--so I didn’t give him tihost, I went for the horror movie classic
"Hey!" I said, and waved et his attention away from Luc, still slumped on the floor
While Mallory and Ethan dealt with the others, Catcher ht would be hand-to-hand, ic
"Let aze on the apparition "This is a se the tunnel" Or the House above it
Besides, if the apparition was tangible enough to take Luc down, ht