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“Even when they cry for help and beg you not to kill them?” he asked, and his eyes filled with the horror of it
We did not have tinore it I finally realized that Newman had asked me here to save more than just Bobby Damn it “Those are bad,” I said finally
“Monsters aren’t supposed to beg for their lives and say they’re sorry,” he said, his face still holding the horror of that an to question if he was thethem
“Everything wants to live, Newman, even monsters”
He looked at an to fade, replaced by that dogged deteret better, to listen, that was one of his best qualities as a marshal
“I’ve had a va me not to kill her while she was covered in the blood of her victims It wasn’t her fault Her master made her do it,” I said
“Was it true? Did her master make her do it?”
“Maybe, or maybe vampires are just like any criular cop for a couple of years Did you ever arrest souilty and deserved the punishment?”
He thought about it, then shook his head “No, either they didn’t do it, or it wasn’t their fault They’d blaiven me her purse, I wouldn’t have had to hit her If my husband hadn’t cheated on me, I wouldn’t have stabbed hi, ‘I hit her before, and she never died’ He just kept saying that as if it was a defense of some kind It was like he really believed that she’d died out of spite, just to put hie of a metal table until her brains leaked out the front of her skull, but it wasn’t his fault that the bitch died” Neas angry as he said the last, righteously angry at the everyday evil of it
“Now, think what that abusive shit would have said if you could have legally aiun and killed him there and then”
I watched the anger deepen as he said, “He’d have said, ‘Why you killing me? What’d I do? It’s not my fault the bitch died’”
“Turning into va the people they were before If they were evil and petty before, they’re still evil and petty afterward”
“What about the nice model citizens that turn evil after they become vampires?” he asked
“You know that old saying ‘power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’?”
“Yes,” he said