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"Who the hell's doing this!" she said

"Who the hell knows, cherie? It destroys the houses, the vaet out of here Now o "

But she had coe of the porch Soo back in the house

"What's wrong?" he asked her in a whisper

How dark this place ith these great big trees and the houses, they all looked haunted, and she could hear so's breathing So like that

"Baby Jenks? Move it now!"

"But where are we going?" she asked This thing, whatever it was, it was almost a sound

"The only place we can go To hi, to the Va, unharmed!"

"Yeah?" she said, staring at the dark street in front of her "Yeah, right, to the Vampire Lestat " Just ten steps to the bike

Take it, Baby Jenks He was about to leave without her "No, don't you do that, you son of a bitch, don't you touch my bike!"

But it was a sound noasn't it? Baby Jenks had never heard anything quite like it But you hear a lot of things when you're Dead You hear trainson planes over your head

The Dead guy heard it No, he heard her hearing it! "What is it?" he whispered Jesus, he was scared And now he heard it all by himself too

He pulled her down the steps She stumbled and almost fell, but he lifted her off her feet and put her on the bike

The noise was getting really loud It was co in beats like music And it was so loud now she couldn't even hear what this Dead guy was saying to her She twisted the key, turned the handles to give the Harley gas, and the Dead guy was on the bike behind her, but Jesus, the noise, she couldn't think She couldn't even hear the engine of the bike!

She looked down, trying to see what the hell was going on, was it running, she couldn't even feel it Then she looked up and she knew she was looking towards the thing that was sending the noise It was in the darkness, behind the trees