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The waiter had set down the hot drinks, and the stealorious The piano played Satie ever so softly Life was al, even for a son of a bitch of acrossed my mind
In this very bar, I'd heard o, "You know I sold my soul for places just like this "
I'd been yards away, quite beyondevery word that fell frohter Dora, that was her nae and succulently alluring Victihter
I realized David atching me
"Just thinking about the victihter They're not going out tonight The snow's too deep and the wind too cruel He'll take her back up to their suite, and she'll look down on the towers of St Patrick's I want to keep hts, you know "
"Good heavens, have you fallen in love with a couple of mortals?"
"No Not at all Just a neay of hunting The man's unique, a blaze of individual traits I adore hi to feed on him the first time I saw hi him around for half a year "
I flashed back on theht They had just left their table in the restaurant The night was too wretched even for Dora, though she wanted to go to the church and to pray for her father, and beg him to stay there and pray too Soirl when ht her to that cathedral
He didn't believe in anything She was soious leader Theodora She preached to television audiences on the seriousness of values and nourishment of the soul And her father? Ah, well, I'd kill hi trophy buck just for Dora's sake
I looked back at David, atching ainst the dark satin-covered wall In this light, no one could have known he wasn't huht have missed itAs for me, I probably looked like a mad rock star anted all the world's attention to crush him slowly to death
"The victi to do with it," I said "I'll tell you all that another time It's just we're in this hotel because I followed hiames, my hunts I don't need blood any ht of not having it!"
"And so what is this new sort of game?" he said politely in British
"I don't look so much for simple, evil people, murderers, you know so much as a more sophisticated kind of crio This one's a drag dealer Highly eccentric Brilliant An art collector He loves to have people shot, loves to ateway and heroin through another And then he loves his daughter And she, she has a televangelist church "
"You're really enthralled with these mortals "
"Look right now, pasttowards the elevators?" I asked