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city.”
    “It’s true.”
    “Then what happened to
me?”
    “I’m not sure exactly.”
    Robert nodded slightly and finished
his sandwich.
    “Well, anyway, I can take you home
this afternoon.”
    Robert took the other
sandwich and started to eat, “Nowhere to go. I’ll just
walk.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “I don’t have a home. I
live on the streets.”
    She sighed, “What do you do for a
living?”
    “I used to be a
bodyguard.”
    “Anyone I know?”
    “No, just politicians
mainly.”
    “Is that why you’ve been shot?” she
asked, trying not to pry too much.
    “Yes”
    “You used to bodyguard,
what now?”
    “Now, I’m a vampire
hunter,” he told her, and set down the empty glass.
    “Do you need more?”
    “No, I’m fine,” he said,
and slowly turned to sit up at the side of the bed.
    “Oh, let me get you
something to wear,” Emily said, and ran up the stairs to Exavior’s
room. She pulled out a set of clothes from the closet and took them
down to Robert.
    He held up the clothes and grinned,
“How big is your husband? Damn.”
    “Kinda big,” she said.
“Come out when you’re dressed, so we can talk more.”
    He nodded and she shut the door behind
her.
    “Is he coming out then?” Kralen asked
from the hallway.
    “Yes, just keep out of
sight, ok?”
    “Will do… vampire hunter
though?”
    “Yeah… well…” she said,
and sat down on a couch in the main foyer.
    Kralen disappeared just as Robert
opened the door and looked around, “Wow, nice house.”
    “Thank you.”
    “What does your husband do
again?”
    “He’s… military, kind of,”
she said, and grinned slightly when she saw him holding his pants
up. “Do you need a belt?”
    “Yes please… He knows I’m
here, right?”
    “Of course he does,” Emily
said, and ran up the stairs. She came back down and handed him a
belt.
    Robert slipped it on and kept looking
around, “I just don’t want to tangle with him if he’s this
big.”
    “Don’t worry about Chev. He’s all bark
and no bite,” Emily said, stifling a laugh.
    “Good to know.”
    “Would you like something
to drink? We can talk in the library where it’s more
comfortable.”
    “Sure, more Coke please.”
    Emily went into the
kitchen and came back out a few minutes later. She handed him a
glass and they went into the library and sat down.
    “Military, you say?” he asked, looking
over at the towering shelves full of books.
    “Sort of.”
    “I’ve never seen military with a house
this big is all.”
    “More about you, my life
is boring. You said you’re a vampire hunter?”
    He sat back on the chair and looked
over at her, “Yes, I’ve made it my life’s work.”
    “Why?”
    “Private
reasons.”
    She frowned slightly, “So you hunt
down the undead even though they attacked you and left you in an
alley.”
    “They wouldn’t have left
me,” he said, and took a drink.
    “You were alone in that alley when I
found you.”
    “I’ve been thinking about that and I
wonder what scared them off.”
    “No one was around you.”
    “Which reminds me, what were you doing
in an alley in the middle of the night by yourself?”
    “I like to drive around at night when
I need to think.”
    “It’s not safe. You
shouldn’t be out by yourself.”
    She smiled, “I can take care of
myself.”
    “This town is riddled with
vampires. You can’t possibly defend yourself against them
though.”
    “I told you, there’s no such thing as
vampires.”
    “Live here long enough and you’ll
see.”
    “So you have nowhere to
go?” she asked, setting down her drink.
    “No, vampire hunting
doesn’t pay well… I do ok though. I pick up handyman jobs once in a
while to buy food, and I stay under the Clock Street Bridge to stay
dry.”
    “Don’t you have family?”
    “Nope”
    “I don’t like that you’re staying
under a bridge.”
    He smiled, “It’s just my way of life
right now.”
    She sighed, “Well, stay here
then.”
    “I can’t move in