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I
murmured, fighting the disgust I felt at his touch.
    “All in good time,” he assured me. “Once
you accept me as your master, I will show you into a new world.”
    I cast my mind around for something to
extend the conversation, anything. “I don’t know...” I said. “It sounds
frightening.”
    “As frightening as being born from a womb
is to the unborn,” he said. “But necessary. Your true life shall begin soon.”
    He reached in his pocket. “Enough talk. I
will take you now and you will be silent.” He threw something at me,
glimmering.
    No! The charm powder! I quickly closed my
eyes and turned my head away. The wave of rosy relaxation made my head spin,
but nothing else happened.
    He was still a monster and I wouldn’t go
along with him.
    “Stubborn girl!” he snarled. “I thought you
would respond to gentleness, but it seems I was mistaken.”
    A stinging slap struck the side of my face
and I lost my balance, tumbling to the floor. “I’m sorry!” I yelled, thinking
fast. “I... I sneezed.”
    Roloth growled, “Fine. Just don’t make a
sound as we go.” He glanced out the window.
    “At least the sun’s long since set,” He
scooped me up and threw me over his shoulder like a sack of wheat, then walked
towards the window.
    “We’ve wasted enough t--Arrgh!” He stumbled
back and we fell together in a heap on the ground. He was staring at the open
window and I followed his gaze to a crossbow bolt embedded in the window frame.
    My heart leapt. Tara! It had to be. Which
meant...?
    The door behind us burst open and Tony
dashed in. “Die, vampire!”
    “Damned hunters!” Roloth snarled, shoving
me upwards and into Tony. Tony caught me and spun me along the wall just as
Roloth struck, punching him in the gut. The hunter flew back into the frosted
window, cracking it in half. He just barely managed to avoid the second punch,
which shattered the window frame and sent him tumbling back onto the catwalk
overlooking the warehouse floor.
    Roloth lunged, fist raised. Tony caught his
punch. Roloth’s eyes widened. “Nice... try,” panted Tony. “But I’m no ordinary
hunter.”
    Tony yanked Roloth over his head and into a
pile of boxes down below. Tony turned to the outside window. “Change of plans,
Brett! Gimme my sword and head for the spotters!”
    The window shattered as a sheathed blade
flew through it. Tony caught it in the air and drew it in one smooth motion,
letting the scabbard fall to the deck. Then, he leapt off the balcony and
disappeared from view.
    I let out a breath that I didn’t realize I
was holding and sat down on one of the boxes, shaking. It was out of my hands
now. I heard a ferocious cry coming from below, then a yell from Tony and
several crashing sounds. Then heavy footsteps.
    “Damn!” Tony’s voice echoed from below. “I
WILL find you, vampire!”
    “Well doesn’t that sound scary,” someone
said right beside me. I jumped.
    “Whoa, easy!” said Jason. “Don’t make a
fuss now, okay?”
    “How did you get here?” I whispered,
casting a nervous eye out at the warehouse. No one seemed to notice him.
    Jason shrugged. Even looking right at him,
I had trouble picking him out from the shadowy environment. “Claire got worried
when Roloth didn’t rendezvous with us. Then she hopped back to the house and
saw he’d broken her ward... not to mention wrecking our deposit. Then we
checked every hideout we knew he had.”
    “Ah,” I said. “But why’d you bother?”
    “Because it was our fault you met him in
the first place,” he replied. “Also, I think you should put your shirt back on.”
    I looked down and blushed at my open shirt
with some buttons still missing. Quickly, I redid the remaining buttons as best
I could.
    Jason nodded and extended a hand. “Now come
on. If your Hunter can’t hold him back...”
    Bright light flooded through the window
from three blinding spotlights, casting sharp white shafts on the warehouse
floor. Roloth