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She smiled and tucked the phone into her backpack Brandon's ability to sense er A year before, he hadn't been able to sense as in the adjacent apartment let alone across town

She assessed her way up the side of the building Tonight was a night of pure athletic ability, no questions asked Rested after her four days off, energized after a good dinner, she was ready to test her luck against five vath to scale the side of the wall, vaulting from the nearby du, leaping and contorting to reach the sturdier boards on the neighboringAshley played the deadly gaility and fearlessness of a spider on the ceiling

When she reached thethat wasn't boarded up, she paused in her movement to rest briefly, uncertain what awaited her She launched upwards with her legs and pulled with her arhtly on her toes on the sill

Theslid open The roo silently to the floor Her instincts took over A chair here, a box there …she e room to the door located on the opposite side of thePlacing her ear against it, she listened for the sound of the predators she expected to find without hearing anyone

Buildings were harder to navigate quickly than the open bay of a warehouse With her senses engaged, she explored the floor she was on before deter there was no one on it She moved to the upper floors and explored each before finally shifting to the floor beneath the first

Movement was on this floor The vamps were divided, two on this floor and possibly three on the floor below Disappointed she wouldn't get to test herself against all five at once, Ashley crept up on the two vamps nearest her

One didn't have time to react She cracked the baton onto the back of his head He dropped silently The second whirled but was soon unconscious as well She knelt to search the them into a pocket at the small of her back

Exhilarated by her quick wins, she went to the floor below One vamp was present, and she knocked hi the other two on the ground floor

When she was done, Ashley returned to theshe'd used to enter the building and worked her way down the wall fast She dropped beside her backpack and stripped off thethe three cells she'd collected into it