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“They both got to keep their badges and their jobs,” I said

“I don’t want to keep this badge enough to give up my humanity, Blake”

I didn’t knohat to say to that, so I let the silence grow until he filled it “What I saw in the club, you with that dancer, that wasn’t human, Blake”

“One should be careful fighting monsters, lest you become one,” I said

“You’re going to quote Nietzsche to me, really?”

“It seemed appropriate”

“Tell me what happened in the club, Blake,” he almost yelled

“There are other things you can catch on the job besides lycanthropy, Newman What you saw in there was one of them”

“What was it? Give it a name, Blake”

I told the truth up to a point “There isn’t a test for it like there is for lycanthropy, New around too many vampires for too many years”

“So it’s a type of vampirism?”

“Not according to my medical file, and trust ularly just like everyone else in the preternatural branch”

“The regular et all theforwhat?”

“Scary things,” I said

“What does that mean, Blake?”