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Incubus Dreams :: Гамильтон Лорел
Страница: 583 из 605But whatever you do, right now, get thefuck away from me.”
He stared at me.
Hudson said, “Mendez, go get some air. That’s an order.”
Mendez gave us both a glance, then he went for the door. Hudson watched him go, then looked back at me. “He didn’t mean that.”
“Yeah, he did.”
“He doesn’t understand what you do.”
I sighed. “Sure.”
“In the movies, the vampires look peaceful. Nothing here looks peaceful.”
“I don’t bring peace, Sergeant, I bring death.”
“You save more lives than you take.”
“Pretty to think so,” I said.
He clapped me on the back, the closest he’d ever get to hugging one of his people, but I took it for the compliment it was. “You did good tonight, Blake, don’t let anyone take that away from you.”
I nodded. “Thanks.”
“You don’t sound convinced,” he said.
“Let’s just say that after awhile you get tired of having to shoot people who are begging for their lives.”
“They’re vampires, they’re already dead,” he said.
I shook my head and smiled. “I wish I believed that, Sergeant Hudson, I do surely wish I believed that.” I watched them start taking out the wounded. They left Melbourne where he lay, but took the girl from the bed. They were triaging, taking the ones they could save; the dead aren’t going anywhere. Well, none of the dead in this room.
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I was having an argument with Sergeant Hudson. We were doing it quietly at the back of the equipment van, so the media that had descended on us wouldn’t get us on camera, but it was still an argument.
“It isn’t them, Sergeant,” I said.
“So there was an extra vamp or two than the bite marks on the earlier victims. They made more.”
“The master vamp of this group is strong enough to hide his power from both the Church of Eternal Life and the Master of the City, nothing we killed up there had that kind of power.”
“We lost three men up there, I think that’s plenty powerful enough.”
I shook my head. “Most of these were babies, almost brand-new.
What I saw at the earlier crime scenes wasn’t a feeding frenzy, it was methodical. The vampires up in that condo were still more like animals than thinking beings. They were too wild to be taken on an organized hunt.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, an organized hunt. You make it sound like killing humans is like hunting deer, or rabbit.”
“To some of the vampires, it is.
He stared at me.
Hudson said, “Mendez, go get some air. That’s an order.”
Mendez gave us both a glance, then he went for the door. Hudson watched him go, then looked back at me. “He didn’t mean that.”
“Yeah, he did.”
“He doesn’t understand what you do.”
I sighed. “Sure.”
“In the movies, the vampires look peaceful. Nothing here looks peaceful.”
“I don’t bring peace, Sergeant, I bring death.”
“You save more lives than you take.”
“Pretty to think so,” I said.
He clapped me on the back, the closest he’d ever get to hugging one of his people, but I took it for the compliment it was. “You did good tonight, Blake, don’t let anyone take that away from you.”
I nodded. “Thanks.”
“You don’t sound convinced,” he said.
“Let’s just say that after awhile you get tired of having to shoot people who are begging for their lives.”
“They’re vampires, they’re already dead,” he said.
I shook my head and smiled. “I wish I believed that, Sergeant Hudson, I do surely wish I believed that.” I watched them start taking out the wounded. They left Melbourne where he lay, but took the girl from the bed. They were triaging, taking the ones they could save; the dead aren’t going anywhere. Well, none of the dead in this room.
79
I was having an argument with Sergeant Hudson. We were doing it quietly at the back of the equipment van, so the media that had descended on us wouldn’t get us on camera, but it was still an argument.
“It isn’t them, Sergeant,” I said.
“So there was an extra vamp or two than the bite marks on the earlier victims. They made more.”
“The master vamp of this group is strong enough to hide his power from both the Church of Eternal Life and the Master of the City, nothing we killed up there had that kind of power.”
“We lost three men up there, I think that’s plenty powerful enough.”
I shook my head. “Most of these were babies, almost brand-new.
What I saw at the earlier crime scenes wasn’t a feeding frenzy, it was methodical. The vampires up in that condo were still more like animals than thinking beings. They were too wild to be taken on an organized hunt.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, an organized hunt. You make it sound like killing humans is like hunting deer, or rabbit.”
“To some of the vampires, it is.