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It was that or die.<br><br> | It was that or die.<br><br> | ||
− | This wasn’t a basement full of Russian Mafiya thugs. The worst | + | This wasn’t a basement full of Russian Mafiya thugs. The worst they could do to me was kill me. They were only human, after all. The people in the room tonight were not human. They were vampires. Honest to God vampires and I had a damned good idea what they’d do to me if I refused to comply. No matter what, I wasn’t going to lie down and die. I didn’t do it for the Russians. I wasn’t going to do it for these bloodsucking bastards, either. Even though it would have been all kinds of convenient for them if I’d had.<br><br> |
And yet—they have a code, some kind of ethics, even so. After all, I’d been given a ''choice''. Submit or die. And when it comes from a party that could rip my head off as easy as plucking daisy petals, it’s not a choice to dismiss out of hand.<br><br> | And yet—they have a code, some kind of ethics, even so. After all, I’d been given a ''choice''. Submit or die. And when it comes from a party that could rip my head off as easy as plucking daisy petals, it’s not a choice to dismiss out of hand.<br><br> |