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"That’s what you heard out of what I just said?"

Behind hter "Still," he said "The lady has a point"

"Huht, Lady? Me? I went back outside andout of the car that had followed us I waved the, "In back, in the garage Eli, will you bring the car around?" Gordon stood on the front porch, looking nonplussed I had the feeling he wasn’t used to being ignored in histhat he would have a lot to say about a va to tell hie, the delivery va, as orked to asseer than the ones I’d seen in Leo’s city, bigger and woven with silver-tipped barbed wire Ingenious and horrific, and the pointy bits had traces of dried blood on them that I could smell I removed the silver chains in which I’d bound the injured vae shut

"He true-dead, he is," one vaht li H’s vae him?"

"No one wit’stand datblond hair back behind both ears "Him come back rev’nat, two, tree day froreed "But this fanghe-- va" I pointed to the fresh flesh on his ribs "Half an hour ago, he didn’t have ribs Now he has skin over a rib cage and organs inside it"

The va, he do," Blondie said

"Stink, he do," Liround and blood ht by dat de Allyon, what come and try to take over Hieronymus’ territory"

"Different kind vamps, dey was," Blondie said

"Yeah," I said "About those different kinds of vamp Did de Allyon actually come to Natchez himself, or did he send an interusted

Blondie snorted "Hieronyue, or de Allyon not take over"

"He lair, place what should be secret but he know it," Li sure I understood that it had been an inside job "De Allyon co wit he queens on he arms"

"Den dey tell us Faain, to take and drain and kill Our priest say no, and de Allyon kill him"

My ears perked up Priest? But before I could ask, they went on, and because they were so chatty, I didn’t want to derail them with my curiosity

"We call Leo Pellissier in New Orleans for help, we did," Limey said "And ait"