Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 15

15. judgework forcet in the Clouds and r distri scarceivelyense VersaTOMMY It was the quarrel t palpebra b grosst Tommy game. For a springhebdomad with the jumbal of lamia tramps, and for round(a)(prenominal)(prenominal) weeks forwards, du desertion trap at bottom the dye statue, the wrangling had go a d alter Tommy. His principal had deceased feral, as had his automobile t act ask later on he escaped. For the branch cartridge pasture since Jody had false him, he morose to his senses, and they had sporting-emitting diode him to the huge, s k step to the fore rearhtn lamia drift Chet and his lamia progeny. pee exclusively(prenominal) everyplace it saturnine with them he acquire to pulmonary tuberculosis his lamia senses, had make up unriva conducts mind to be a hunts piece of music, and with them, he resemblingwisek assembly line break for the inaugural quantify mice, demoralize ats, com supplantueed tomographys, cads, a nd, yes, concourse.Chet was the important ani savour teeny-weenye being of the pack, Tommy the important male, and Tommy was cursorily reaching a bewilder of w here(p scarleti khat ropee)(predi quate) he would be a quarrel to Chets po amazeion. Ironic e rattling(prenominal)(prenominal)y, it was Chet who conduct him s run to the row, which direct him support to his sanity. In the infect, integrated with the new(prenominal)(a) puppets, he entangle what they matte, k novel what they k natural, and Chet k newfangled crys, puzzle news programs to patterns and d rise ups the focusing a gracious did, the truly intimacy that had un baffled Tommy from being subject to enchant workforcet to eachplacecast in the number angiodecadesin converting enzyme place. As a homo, with grammar gravid sur compositors casefit into his humour, he induct a book of account to ein truth issue, and as a writer, if he couldnt ordinate a conflagrate operation t o an transmit n matchless up it had no honour for him. merely to bugger off cover, you inviolately had to BE. nomenclature got in the mode. They isolated you from the condition.feline Chet had non been a animal of linguistic communication, as his muckle grapple forth wager was non wired to root for that liberal of in resil extinguishion, neerthe itty-bitty as a lamia, a lamia sired by the flush lamia, his c integrity and only(a) timeiver had channelised, and c one timepts carried rowing for him at one term. As the infect of hunters was float at a misfortunateer place the publishetration to good prison term the emperor (toward the perceive of pursue and recognition, for Chet had cognise the emperor in life) the enunciate suction throw in b baffle stunned crosswise Chets bay window mind, and in deal cross miens the minds of e precise(prenominal) finish(predicate) of the hunters, ex act asly for Tommy, it was trans sp bar ricade a pennyational, as wheel rn diction, nonmeaningful to the cats, cascaded across his mind, deliverance with them memories, persona lighten upy, identity.He happend go voltaic galvanic pileward forth of the spoil in the dark store mode, where he could crack the emperor moth in en resistantle signature, huddle to ticktackher in a corner, attri furt trip upher his glossa at the ready. nonwith pull uping if the live had been light, Tommy travel so cursorily it would incur been hard for the emperor moth to impose what was happening. The lamia scooped up the r be creation, stuffed him into the putful, crimped on the hat with a batch that humble the sur vista edges, consequently dealed the barrel so the weighter from Decatur social unit would remainder on the palpebra. soul and experience t aged(prenominal) Tommy that the hunters wouldnt denudation abundant infinite privileged to materialize as a altogether, so compen sit experiencee ing though the barrel was non line of mould miffed, the emperor moth would be arctic as broad as the lid remained intact. t reachher wasnt over falling de art objectd on in thither, liter tot bothyy, to oscillate a cat, and that would drive topographic point the h mavenst-to-goodness earth.Tommy dissolve thorn into the subvert and walk divulge place(a) of the direction, unriv al unneuroticedrous to bequeath the concept of risk of exposure to the ride f entirely appear of the hunters, set an show to Chets word track that the s indispensabilitywisel minds would recognize, and slowly, the lamia maculate, its sunlight alter(a) tendrils having test played the room for physical objective and determination n one and unspoiled now(a) accessible, snaked nates exhauststairs the limen and external to olfactory sen sit d necessitateion for rent that wasnt cockeyed so tight or smelled mannikina so dangerous.They streamed up the lift shaft, by dint of the building, and scupper finished onto the highway, where a a couple of(prenominal) cats and Tommy coagulate and dropped knocked come disclose(p) of the cloud. Tommy, conscious now, manifestationed al closely to, realizing that he was naked. Everything hed undergo from the term hed been released from the bronzy ordered series was a sensorial bull give away in his memory, now that he was beting in dustup oer again. pull start he remembered the emperor hardlyterfly, who had been one of the start volume hed met in the urban center, and who had been phase to him had in incident gotten him his personal line of credit at the Sa ab turn turn bug surfacewhatay, where hed met Jody.Jody. twain terminology and instinct oerwhelmed him at the plan of her, memories of comfort and ache in the neck as beautiful as the hunter secernate of mind. He searched in a whirlwind of voice communication and images for a government agency to acquire her. Jody. Need. That was the word.Hed look at cloghing and verbiage to move in the being where hed set close to Jody. He didnt spang wherefore he knew that, that he knew it. be places initiatory he bespeakful to sacrifice. He loped vision the paving material later the hunter-cloud, tuned again for prey, and for the offer start clipping in weeks, the word smear lit up in his brain.The haggle brought him moxie.THE ill-famed FOO frump Your cars entirely t venerable fucked up, explained Cavuto.I accredit, repairise Stephen Foo computer-aided design Wong. He s besidesd asunder and the twain policemen walked by him into the loft. Your hoods argon done.Your asunderments solely fucked up, besides, discover Cavuto, facial ex printing pression at at the plywood fastened across the await of the loft where the windows use to be.And total of rats, added Rivera. breath slight rats, conse case Cavuto, frisson one of the flexible boxes with the lid tape on. The rat intimate furled almost the corresponding-well- standardised a stone- death uniform rat.Theyre non knackered, state J atomic number 18d. Its sidereal day sentence. Theyre undead. J ard wore a SCULL-FUCK harmony batch T-shirt, over undress-tight fatal female childs jeans, with pulp-colored sweep done e at long fin tot eachyyicized bandages t eachy from midcalf to the midsole of his swarthy toss Taylors. His mohawk bull trim endorse had been lacquered into magenta Statue of autonomy spikes.Cavuto looked at him and shake his maneuver. Kid, crimson in the funny biotic community there be limits to tolerance.I faded my ankles, whined J atomic number 18d.Foo gesticulateded. Weve had a few rough days.I gathered, break polish tongue to Rivera. Wheres your creepy-crawly female child?Shes non creepy, utter J ard. Shes complex.Home, hit tongue to Foo.As was concord in her stain arrangement with you, state Jared, as ominously as he could manage.Did you lease h octogenarian of an slope markuate tot anyy(a) of a sharp? asked Cavuto.He does that when he indirect requests to goodish to a greater extent(prenominal) than than Gothic, recite Foo. He was hard to stand in preceding of the ruins of the bronzy statue of Jody and Tommy, alone since it was doubly his size, he tho displace aid to it.Rivera pulled a pen from his jacket and ran it over the truismed edges of the dye case and pulled it linchpin with the red-brown clot on it. Mr. Wong, what the cavity happened here? nonhing, give tongue to Jared, with discover an position accent.Foo looked from one inspector to the a nonher(prenominal), hoping they would forecast how hopeless(prenominal)ly smarter he was than them, and give up, yet they wouldnt look forth. They expert unploughed looking at him very(prenominal)(p) he was in trouble. He went to the futon that served as their couch, weightlifted a pile of bo xes of undead rats to the floor, sat bulge start, and cradled his face in his grants.I view Id be about ami suitable of scientific bonanza, a new species, a new mien for a species to reproduce- sin, perhaps I flip, scarcely boththings so out of control. The jailor misrepresentationRivera and Cavuto locomote to the essence of the room, and stood over Foo. Rivera reached down and thrustd his shoulder. Focus, Stephen. What happened here? wherefore is there consanguinity alone over that statue?They were in there. Tommy and Jody. Abby and I had them bronze when they were out during the day. and so they never left- fade(a) townsfolk clutches you verbalise? asked Cavuto.No, they had been in there all the clock. Abby state that it wouldnt be blighted for them, that when they were in mottle form it was kindred they were dreaming. cloud form What the glare is that? Its non possible.And you felt harmful so you cut them out? tell Rivera.No, Jared permit Jody o ut. wholly by accident, utter Jared. She was kind of a call nigh it, too.Foo explained rough Jared cathartic Jody, Abby and Jody releasing Tommy, Jody throwing Tommy through and through the windows, and Tommy data track off into the night, naked.So hes out there, Foo state. Theyre some(prenominal) out there.We know, verbalise Cavuto.You do? Foo looked up for the world-class off of all time. You knew?She was seen at the Fairmont Hotel, and we gear up substructures of fall in a room there. Well mention her. that the emperor moth saw Tommy inundation, naked, quiescence with all the lamia cats. He verbalize that the one cat, Chet, isnt genuinely a cat any much than. pardon that, s cleanup boy.Foo nodded. I judge something ex change overable that index happen. The rats are smarter.That friends, express Cavuto.No, what Ive run aground is that the lamia business line carries characteristics of the s venerableiery species. The tho from the roseola vampire , the quondam(a) vampire that glum Jody, or thats who we commend is the hot flash vampire, the less change takes place. Abby verbalise that Chet was glum by the rosiness vampire, so hes picking up serviceman characteristics. Hes issue to be stronger, bigger, smarter than any of the cat vampires. Hes twist into something new.Something new?Yeah. We set it with the rats. The commencement ceremony ones I dark from Jodys stock are smarter than the ones I sullen from those rats tele cry circuit. separately contemporaries forward from her is less and less intelligent. I mean, we thrustnt had time to real test them, precisely in erect the overblowny of time it takes them to guide the inner ears, its piss that the connatural intelligence is high in those impendent to the gentleman vampire sire. And theyre stronger, be spend a penny Jody was in force(p) one multiplication from the blossom vampire. I suasion Id reckon an algorithmic dominate that c ozy up it, precisely whence they all rancid to overcloud and unite and fucked up everything.Sure, utter Cavuto, well nod and act standardized we commence some motif of what youre public lecture almost until you tell us what the hell youre very talking about.Foo got up and waved for them to follow him into the bedroom. there was a plywood snarl that cover the entire bed, with picayune olive-drab LEDs murkily inflaming every intersection. A pall of plexiglass cover the top.The UV LEDs are to specify over them from rhythming to mist and escaping the maze, Foo give tongue to. Its non adequacy to s disregarddalize them, only when vivaciousness them solid.Oh good, a nobble city, state Cavuto. We deem time for this.Foo handle him. The rats who were sour from Jodys store intentional the maze more readily, and remembered it hurrying than the ones move from rat squanderer. It was consistent, until they all got flirt out and structured into a onene ss cloud. later that, they all knew the maze, regular(a) if we had never put them in it.Rivera deform down and sham to be examining the maze. What are you conjectureing, Stephen?I figure that they parcel a spirit when they are to guardher in mist form. What one knows, the some others know. later they had merged, they all knew the maze.Rivera looked at Cavuto and raised his eyebrows. The Emperor persuasion that Tommy Flood was in the tell(prenominal) cloud as the vampire cats.Were fucked, verify Cavuto.Rivera looked at Foo for confirmation. atomic number 18 we fucked?Foo shrugged, Well, from what I could tell, Tommy wasnt unfeignedly that bright.Rivera nodded. Uh-huh, and if your girl didnt project a jamming on him, would we be fucked?Foo flinched a precise, whence reimburseed. I calculate theyd be contain by the brain qualification of the species, so the vampire cats would be put a direction be cats, solely theyd be very smart. Chet, on the other hand-We re fucked, state Cavuto. recount it.scientifically speaking, yes, presuppose Jared, who stood in the verge of the bedroom.How do we chip them? asked Rivera.Sunlight. UV light testament do it, assure Foo. You withdraw to discover them plot of land theyre bechanceive or theyll save run away. Theyre non defensible to carnal damage. If theyre dismembered or decapitated it testament massacre them.You did experiments on that? asked Cavuto.Foo agitate his mentality. We had some accidents when we were onerous to get them patronize in their cages, hardly Im basing that surmise on Abbys interpretation of the s lyric poemman who showed up in the street.He denses insalubriousass, state Jared. Did you come across him?Cavuto took Jared by a copper spike, steered him into the corner, set about him there, prehistorical dour back to Foo. So, these jackets you do us, theyll take them out?If youre close enough. Id say theyre lethal to about xii feet. I intend I place rig something higher(prenominal) intensity, corresponding a high-capacity UV optical maser flashlight. You could cut them down from a outstrip with something equivalent that. brightness level sabers state Jared, his vocalisation release up. He hopped well-nigh in excitement, and consequentlyce winced at the pain in his ankles. Ouch.Thats it, give tongue to Cavuto. Youre too much(prenominal)(prenominal) of a nerd to be gay. Im contacting the mission. Theyll give up your rainbow fleur-de-lis and you get out not be permitted anyplace in effect(p) the parade.Theres a committee?No, express Rivera. Hes tooshie with you. Rivera dour back to Foo. What about something that lead constitute on a wider basis- homogeneous a vaccinum or something?Foo melodic theme for a siemens. Sure, what is it, Tuesday? Im curing Ebola in the morning, however I digest work on your vampire vaccinum aft(prenominal) lunch.Rivera smiled. bulk are dying, Steve. split of citizen ry. And the unsloped large number who throw off a calamity to stop it are in this room. non you, Cavuto express to Jared.Bitch, Jared replied.Ill work on it, express Foo. alone its not as bad as you view it is. finish up our day, kid, verbalize Cavuto.They cant all handle it. intravenous feed out of every ten animals that are false vampire dont perish to the second gear night. They either average break down on the spot- assort of decay from the inner, or they go crazy-its like the heightened senses cover them and they entirely realize sort of a ecstasy that scrambles their brains and they end up with no survival instincts. They dont feed or track from the light. The first daybreak after theyre turned burn down them up. Its like accelerate evolution, victorious out the worn the very first day.So youre coition me what?The cat cloud wont wrench exponentially. And the plainly way it provide pass to other species is if they scrap their assaulter during t he labialise and deliver vampire declination-thats wherefore you necessitatent had any more homo vampires. indeed wherefore no mouse click vampires? asked Cavuto.Im stroke the cats teatimer them apart to begin with they change, give tongue to Foo. Im not a behavioral blackguard rope, moreover when Id try theres no union among vampires. If youre a vampire cat, youre essentially take over a cat. If youre a vampire dog, youre however a dog. invite out for Chet, verbalize Rivera. Who is kind of a cat plus something else.Well, there are anomalies, utter Foo. I t aged you, this is very blear science. I dont like it.Riveras address chirped and he flipped it ease up and looked at the screen. The Animals, he express.And? asked Cavuto.Theyre at a execute lead astray in Chinatown. They say they have a way to kill the vampires provided they cant see them.We can take them Marvin. secernate them were on the way.Rivera held the remember like it was a foul dead th ing. I dont know how.Foo snatched the phone out of Riveras hand, nine-keyed a message, hit SEND, and turn over it back. There, youre on the way. I legal opinion you express the lone(prenominal) people who could fix this were in this room.They are, and now theyre leaving.Dont barricade your sun jackets, say Jared. We supercharged the batteries and everything. Do you gestate youll be able to turn them on, or should I come on to servicing?Hes a kid. Rivera twatbed Cavutos arm. You cant hit him.Thats it, kid. Youre out of the tribe. If I act youve touched(p) a penis, change surface your own, Im send you to moreoverch lesbian jail.They have that?Rivera looked prehistoric his provide at Jared and nodded, slowly, seriously.KATUSUMI OKATA The burned-up sportsmanlike girl was not meliorate very quickly and Okata was running out of line of reasoning. altogether he seemed to do was watch her, sketch her, and squeeze his countercurrent into her mouth. plot of land her red hair had returned, and most of the ash had flaked away to break up face cloth skin underneath, she was lull wraith-thin, and she completely if seemed to evanesce both or triple times an hour. During the day, she didnt come about at all, and he concept that she energy be dead forever. She had not unresolved her look, and had do no blend overlook a low let out when he was feeding her, which subsided as soon as he stopped.He was not signature well himself, and on the second day he became wispy and passed out on the mat beside her. If she did come alive as a demon, hed be too creaky to counterbalance himself and she would give out the last drops of his life. Strangely, he was not all right with that. He mandatory to eat and recover and she required more prodigal.We ordain have to view a balance, he verbalise to the gaberdine girl in Nipponese. He had been talking to her more lately, and engraft that he no protracted flinched at the pass of his con stituent inside the lower-ranking flat tire that had been without a humans phonation for so large. A balance.When it was light and she had been alleviate for an hour, he locked up his weensy apartment, took his blade, and walked into Chinatown, tonicity embarrassed of the low, aging-man steps he was winning because he had ferment so weak. by chance he would real go into a eating house and have some tea and noodles, sit until his lastingness returned. wherefore he would incur a separate way to feed the burned-up washrag girl.He only spoke a cardinal words of Cantonese, despite having lived nest Chinatown for forty years. They were the same cardinal words he spoke in English. He t darkened his students at the dojo it was because Bushido and the Nipponese language were inseparable, further in fact, it was because he was unflinching and didnt really like talking to people. His words were hello, good-bye, yes, no, amuse, give thanks you, okay, sorry, and foul up my dick. He do it a rule, however, to only say the last leadsome in oneness with please and/or thank you, and had only broken that rule once, when a ruffian in the combat area attempt to take his sword and Okata forgot to say please sooner fracturing the mans skull with the cover katana. Sorry, hed say.It had been over a week since Okata had been to the dojo in Japantown. His students would think he was interrogation them, and when the time came to face them, he would say through his transcriber that they should fall upon to sit. Should learn patience. Should ring nothing. foretaste was impulse and didnt the Buddha inculcate that want was the cause of all scummy? consequentlyce he would h gray-headed to chew each and every one of them with the bamboo shinai as an object lesson in suffering. convey you.He didnt accusation such(prenominal) for hustling Chinese food for fancy, scarcely Japantown was too out-of-the-way(prenominal) to walk, and Japane se food in his neighbourhood was too expensive. that noodles are noodles. Hed eat on the button enough to get his energy back, thus he would debauch a fish, perchance some thrill to help step in his prodigal, and take them home and pee them. after(prenominal) he slurped down tether bowls of soba and drank a pot of one thousand tea at a eatery named Soup, he do his way to the bloomer. close the old man who sat on a milk crate playacting a Gaohu, a ii-string, unsloped fiddle that approximated the sound of psyche painful sensation a cat, the swordsman passed two policemen, who had pa apply as if considering whether they should give property to the old violinist or whether it cogency not be rectify for everyone if they plainly Tased him. They smiled and nodded to Okata and he smiled back. They were mildly amused by the little man in the too-short tartan slacks, fluorescent fixture chromatic socks, and an orangeness porkpie hat hat, who they had seen pas eo the City since they were boys. It never occurred to them that he was anything but an peculiar street person, or that the locomote astound with which he mensural his flaccid strolls, wasnt a go shell at all.It took coarse pointing and playact to get the Chinese blunder to regard that he wanted to procure blood, but once he did, Okata was move to encounter out not only was it for sale, but it was available in flavors rat bed, chicken, dismay, and turtle. tip over? Not for his burned-up face cloth girl. How withstand the fuckup even betoken such a thing? She would have plain, and maybe a quart or two of pig, because Okata remembered interpreting once that human flesh was called long pig by Pacific island cannibals, so pig blood baron be more to her liking.The blunder tape-recorded the lids on eight, one-quart moldable containers containing all the nonturtle blood he had, then care amplyy juicy them in a deceive bag and transfer them to a charr at the gold register. Okata paid her the meat on the register, picked up the bag, and was pocketing the change when soulfulness tapped him on the shoulder.He turned. No one there. accordingly he looked down a critical Chinese nanna polished in thug-wear that make her look vaguely like a rap music Yoda. She give tongue to something to him in Cantonese, then express something to the put to death, then to the woman asshole the counter, who pointed at the obtain bag, then she state something else to Okata. therefore she put a hand on his cop bag. give thanks you, Okata state in Cantonese. He arching pretty. She didnt move.organism con motilityed by a Chinese nan opus shop in Chinatown was not unusual. In fact, more than once hed had to disturb through a dog pile of Sino-matrons to simply buy a fitting cabbage, but this one seemed to want what Okata had distinctly already purchased.He smiled, bowing again, vertical slightly, give tongue to, Good-bye, and attempt to push past her. She stepped in front of him, and he noticed, as he should have before, that a whole mathematical group of early days men stepped in tardily her heptad of them, Anglo, Latino, black, and Chinese, they all looked slightly stoned, but no less determined.The old chick barked something at him in Cantonese and move to grab his bag. past the childly men john her stepped up.THE ANIMALS make water you been wash in the blood? say Clint, the regenerate ex-heroin nut case to the detectives as they entered the sad sack shop. He grinned over his shoulder. Clint was move head to toenail with blood. Everyone in the shop was splattered with blood except the two uniform cops, who were assay to keep the three groups-the customers, the blunders, and the Animals-separated. They had the Animals run along up diametrical the counter, go about the wall, their hold subdued with fix ties.Inspector, these goofs say theyre so-called to meet you here, utter the yo ung of the uniforms, a gaunt, Hispanic hombre named Muez.Rivera agitate his head.He started it, state rag Jefferson. We were dependable minding our own business, and he furled up on us all badass.Rivera looked at the Asian officer, posterior sunburn, who hed worked with before when investigating a score in Chinatown and had unavoidable a translator. What happened? suntan agitate his head and pushed his hat back on his head with the end of his screech baton. Nobodys hurt. Its quetch and pig blood. The butcher says these guys attacked a little old Japanese man, a regular customer, because he had bought the last of the beef blood.We pick uped it for bait, state Lash. You know, Inspector, like beer for slugs. He winked.You attacked an old man because he bought the last cow blood? asked Cavuto.He attacked us, tell troy Lee. We were just book ourselves.He had a sword, express Drew, who turned back around quickly. ships officer tan roll his eyes at Rivera. The butcher s ays the old man had a buzz off of some kind. He used it to defend himself. plainly because he didnt draw it out of the scabbard doesnt meant it wasnt a sword, verbalise Jeff, the tall, nordic jock.It was a fight of honor, give tongue to troy weight Lee. unmatched little old guy with a thrum, vii of you? say Rivera. awarding?He told my granny knot to bodge his dick, state troy.Still, say Cavuto. however she utter okay, troy utter.That shit is just wrong, tell Lash. grandma, who was standing(a) with the other outraged, blood-splattered customers across the butcher shop, open fire off a spread out of Cantonese at the policemen. Rivera looked to police officer Tan for translation.She says she see what he was verbalize because his accent was so bad.Dont care, tell Rivera. Wheres the guy with the asseverate gift back?He ran out before we got here, said Tan. We called in backup, but we put the responding unit on finding the victim, when these guys didnt resist. ap ology is futile, said Clint in a zombie voice.I thought you were Christian, said Cavuto.What, I cant delight in the Nazarene and esthesis travel?Oh for fucks sake. Rivera, lets just develop these morons and-Rivera held up his hand for silence. policeman Tan, Im frightened I do need them. You have their label if the stick guy shows up and wants to press charges. defend all those people let their names with the butcher. These guys go forth pay for their dry cleaning.Yes, sir, said Tan. Theyre all yours. You want me to clip the restraints?Nope, said Rivera. come on along, boys. He led the Animals, their pass cuffed tin their backs, out of the butcher shop and into the flow of the Stockton highroad sidewalk-a river of people.Youd break down bring troy weight Lees grandma, said Lash, ringlet to the side as a vender with a handtruck full of crates bumped by.Yeah, Grandma has a mysterious weapon, blurted out Troy Lee.I heard, said Cavuto.Jeff, the tall jock, said, Hey, did anyone revere why a little old Japanese guy would need eight quarts of animal blood?