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"I'll go," I told the table I saw a slow sus' features, and Oliver nodded in satisfaction Hugo seemed astonished at first, but then he looked across atto call hi as I was, so I stuck with Hugo, and it suited us both just fine I'd spent time with him in the last few days too, and I'd enjoyed his old fashioned edginess He was an interesting ress was slow But it was steady too

"I'ested Julia carefully

"I' her forehead I knew that look - I'd seen in plenty of ti with us

"We should all go," said Angus, surprising us all "We have about four hundred blood drinking vampires to take down, and a few dozen female va at the last distasteful word We had unanihts were ned with Anne's than ours would be destroyed We had all voted in favour of that action, but the execution would give any of us pause It stuck in our throats

"We owe it to ourselves and to a lesser extent, the blood drinkers," continued Angus "If we can put theht never realise what they are, or that there are so many of theht be seen as an aberration More than that and they'd be labelled a plague, and that would spell trouble for us, and those that are like us out there Plagues trigger reactions Sometimes these reactions are disproportionate to the threat the plague poses An unknown and probably large nuate an almost catastrophic reaction And when they realise that so us to draw our own conclusions

"We're screwed," said Oliver succinctly, finishing the thought

We all nodded solemnly Really, when he put it like that, there wasn't us continued unhurriedly, "I don't think ould have been able to do it without Mark As a group we could only have taken on a couple of dozen at a ti too much of a disturbance"