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'''0600hrs, local time'''<br><br> | '''0600hrs, local time'''<br><br> | ||
− | I couldn’t sleep. I showered til the water ran cold and I couldn’t sleep. | + | I couldn’t sleep. I showered til the water ran cold and I couldn’t sleep. Too much would parade past my eyelids for sleep to be possible. I sat up and turned on the bedside light. There was one thing I knew would do the trick. I pulled my laptop into my lap and booted it up. I had to put the stuff in my head on some form of paper or I would never sleep again.<br><br> |
I didn’t follow my usual format for an encounter report because the individuals on it weren’t the usual sort encountered. I opened a doc and started typing.<br><br> | I didn’t follow my usual format for an encounter report because the individuals on it weren’t the usual sort encountered. I opened a doc and started typing.<br><br> | ||
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I hit save and backed up to a thumb drive. I closed everything up and stowed it away, ready to grab and haul ass at a moment’s notice. Not that there was any running from the consequences. Certainly there was no running from the vampires themselves. They’d find me and kill me.<br><br> | I hit save and backed up to a thumb drive. I closed everything up and stowed it away, ready to grab and haul ass at a moment’s notice. Not that there was any running from the consequences. Certainly there was no running from the vampires themselves. They’d find me and kill me.<br><br> | ||
− | And that reminded me of something Renny said, something that got overshadowed in the events | + | And that reminded me of something Renny said, something that got overshadowed in the events this night just past. The Giovanni were after me. They’d sent hunting wraiths looking for me and though I’d gotten a reprieve from an unexpected ally, it won’t be long before others would be dispatched to find and kill me. <br><br> |
− | Why? | + | Why? |
− | I stared at my door and debated walking through it to wake Renny up and ask him. ''He doesn’t know the why, DiSanti, or the when. Only the who and the what—the same as you. Get some sleep. You have Eliza Beauchamp to deal with tomorrow and another dress to buy. If you survive tomorrow night, hit Renny up then''. | + | I stared at my door and debated walking through it to wake Renny up and ask him. ''He doesn’t know the why, DiSanti, or the when. Only the who and the what—the same as you. Get some sleep. You have Eliza Beauchamp to deal with tomorrow and another dress to buy. If you survive tomorrow night, hit Renny up then''. |
− | I pummeled my pillow into submission and drew the covers up to my chin. As I’d had for the past week, I slept with the bedclothes piled high, the AC jacked up as far as I could get away with, and the ceiling fan spinning. The covers | + | I pummeled my pillow into submission and drew the covers up to my chin. As I’d had for the past week, I slept with the bedclothes piled high, the AC jacked up as far as I could get away with, and the ceiling fan spinning. The covers a palpable weight and I needed the illusion of armor they lent me against the monsters that went bump in the night. A kid fear and a kid solution, but I wasn’t about to quibble.<br><br> |
I set my watch to go off at nine and curled up under the fortress of my comforter. The birds were singing their pre-dawn reveille when I finally dropped off.<br><br> | I set my watch to go off at nine and curled up under the fortress of my comforter. The birds were singing their pre-dawn reveille when I finally dropped off.<br><br> |