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But I did notice a black SUV, paralleling ress one street over Black SUVs were a dime a dozen, but this oneHad I seen it fro attacked me? It looked familiar I slowed, and the black vehicle continued on Paranoid ot back to e It looked like the kind that could be caused by a two-hundred-fifty-pound deer in a full run ra an ordinary vehicle But unlike a deer accident, there were no short brown hairs or blood in the indentations No indication or evidence of what had hit the vehicle, though the rainthat hit me before, several times, in fact The first time hen it wrecked Bitsa, my Harley, and most recently in Chauvin, Louisiana It had been all teeth with vaguely humanoid features Had the creature I had seen down south been the sa that hit my SUV? Maybe the sathe damp in ed the guys sitting in the main room with a wave and a prothe steam and the water pressure pound the stress out ofthat had attackedthat was my ex-boyfriend’s partner in the department called PsyLED under the umbrella of Homeland Security Her naeous and deadly And not hu I’d seen, the thing that had now attackedI had seen splashing in the water of the canals, like a dolphin playing, below Chauvin, Louisiana A thing others didn’t seeics Whatever she was, Soul changed fors, though she didn’t s of Soul and Chauvin made me think of Ricky Bo Which just ticked me off
Before I went back into the main room, I dressed and texted Soul, not that she had co substantive, when I saw the previous things But infor like you attacked my SUV Dented it I listed the ti Soul would call or text me back, but she didn’t I kne hard it was to step up and deal with the "I ah sooner rather than later
Back in the main roo to be rude or anything, Janie, but you look like crap," the Kid said
"It’s been an interesting night"
Toof spices, with a dollop of Cool Whip on top He put it in ers around the war, his flesh war, that touch Tears burned underht," Eli said aloud He dropped into the chair across fro me "Debrief Take it slow"
As I sipped, I filled them in, step by step, while the Kid typed up a report We had discovered that it helped to have a running record of the weird stuff in our lives and business
When I got to the part about the thing in the basenize it?"
"No It was" My nose crinkled, re the oppressive dark and the stench
"You didn’t have a record of the scent in your skinwalker memory?"
"The closest I can coe full of sick and dead hu, and the scent of vaar Sick and dead and dying and electrified salad dressing all at once" I shookaway the ot the heck outta Dodge"
The Kid said, "Otis Online Repair did a diagnostic and told us nothing we didn’t already know The pal according to specs, just as our own diagnostic showed They speculate that the problem with the elevatornot digitally traceable in the control panel I pulled up an electrical schematic of vamp central" He whirled the laptop to display a floor plan with varicolored lines on each floor, including five layers of baseh water table "The base in froic went into the construction Some kind of spell that keeps water outside the base process several hundred years ago But aswere the different-colored lines threaded through the building, floor to floor
"The colored lines," he said, "are the electrical syste to date of installation The red lines are the original installation in--get this--1890 Most of the original wiring has been updated, some parts repeatedly, for decades," Alex said "Some were torn out--that’s the yellow--and replaced, especially after insulated copper wires first cainal uninsulated ones The major updates were done in 1893, 1906, 1947, 1969, 1998, and again in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina In fact, all the rewiring dates followed round floors were totally rewired due to a store that supposedly flooded the basements fro in through the walls won’t stop it froreed "But according to what I can find online and in the databases of vamp HQ, the lines in the ter baseraded, and are still in use"
"And the ter base, so that excuse to reas bogus If our problem isn’t the control panel of the elevator--which is the --"