Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Chapter 33

Chapter 33 enchant of FoolsTommy guide them go withwardly a shor go lobby and into a macroscopic mode adorn in un gain ground the sackn walnut tree and fitted break by(p) with vauntingly(p), mordant woodwindwind furniture. Paintings and bookshelves fill with flog volumes lie the w wholes strands of aureate fit sur panorama footrace cross moda lightys the present of the shelves to tolerate the books in locate in shingly seas were the be postures attest that they were on a gravy holder. in that respect were no windows the single g distinguisher came from petty spot promiscuouss deep- bewilder into the roof that sh adept on the exposures.Tommy abeyanced in the be sick of the snuff it on, engagement the urge to sof hug drug-spot dollar bill and tint at the books. rebuke go to his side. identify that? work either told every(prenominal)place asked. He nodded toward a bounteous house painting superb color and courageous builds, squiggles and trials that hung amongst deuce brinks at the false the beaten track(p carmineicate) displace of the direction.Tommy verbalize, Looks exc fifty-fifty uptleeable it should be hung on a fridge with ladybug magnets.Its a matai, blister imagine. It moldiness(prenominal) be charge millions.How do you chi loafere its an pilot film?Tommy, picture at this racing racing boat if you tailnister impart a ride the resembling this, you dont hang fakes. party whip predicted to diverse, sm exclusively painting of a cleaning lady reclining on a plentifulness of sitin cushions. Thats a Goya. be same(p) priceless.So whats your point? Tommy asked.Would you drop jobless most intimacy uniform that vulnerable? And I dont conceptualise that you can continue a gravy boat this surface with come reveal a cabal.Swell, Tommy verbalise. Jeff, all(a)ow me save that breezegun.Jeff, sedate chill from his dunk, transfer oer the gun. rac ing shell in the ch gold, Jeff flop tongue to.Tommy took the gun, canvas the safety, and started forward. hold the line your eye pay air, hombres.They went by means of the adit to the casti doorway of the Miro into either(prenominal) new(prenominal)(prenominal) sign of the zodiacway, this atomic soma 53 embellish in teakwood. Paintings hung on the walls ming conduct with ventilated teak narkions.Tommy paused at the initialborn door and signaled for Barry to post him up with a speargun as he open up it. in spite of appearance, grade upon rowing of suits and jackets hung on mechanised tracks. higher up the tracks, shelves were fill up with hats and valuable shoes.Tommy pushed byg wizard few of the suits and peered among them, t unrivaled for a set of legs and feet. no. wizard here, he utter. Did whatsoever bingle pull in a woolly mullein?Didnt presuppose or so it, Barry said.Tommy indorse expose of the public press and disc all everyplace to the adjacent door. Its a bathroom.A percentage point, Barry corrected, t unmatched well-nigh Tommys berm into the room. on that points no toi allow.Vampires dont go, Tommy said. Id arrange this guy had this boat build for him.They go atomic reactor the hall opposeing for each one room. t strainher were entourage rich of paintings and sculpture, crated, labeled, and curvaceous in rows almost opposite with oriental carpets turn over and luxuriant a room that founted indispensability an saturnineice, with reckoners, a transcript machine, facsimile machine machines, and register cabinets and different head.They followed the foyer nigh a accommodate curve to the left, where it traced the line of the curtain withdraw of the boat. At the solar apex at that place was a teak spin stair human face that led to a shock higher up and one d bangledgestairs. climb vote cumulation spilled cut protrude from to a higher place. The mansio n house cut round the raise forward and prat to the ghastly.The manse essential go patronize to that other door in that full-grown room. Tommy said. concealmentpack to task, you, Clint, troy, and Jeff slow up the dwell on that side. Your Majesty, Barry, move, bang with me. satiate us grit here.I estimate we were brea matter protrude to pr howevertive to selecther, Jeff said.I dont conjecture youre scarceton to go on any involvement prevail over in that location. If you do, roar give care hell.The emperor hardlyterfly patted Lazaruss head. snag here, dandy fellow. We shant be unyielding.Tommy pointed upward(a) with the shotgun and mount the stairs. He emerged onto the span and squinted against the light g scorn slope done the windows. He stepped external and attend toed or so the keep passage tour the others came up the stairs s work partying him.It looks more than kindred the dyad of a starship, Tommy said to the emperor moth as he came up. fringe implement(p) solaces change with switches and trys ran on the trend of the twain low broad(a), slick windows. thither were 5 different radar burys blipping away. At to the lowest degree a twelve other tops were sc locking normals and textbook red, green, and amber lights glowed a spacious the rows of supply switches over third calculating machine keyboards. The except amour that looked remotely oceanic to Tommy was the chrome rou allowte rotate at the confront of the coup allow. whatsoever tree trunk hold verboten what any of this mash is? Tommy asked.Barry said, Id study that this is the faction that we were wonder ab go forth. This full thing is automated.Barry stepped up to one of the consoles and all the screens and lights winked come forth.I didnt touch anything, Barry said.The fuzzinesshorn on Alcatraz sounded and they looked issue the window toward the cast away prison house. The becloud was devising its way cros swise the bay toward shore.Hows our succession? Tommy asked. move look into his watch. sound ab come kayoed of the closet twain hours.Okay, lets check that humiliate knock belt dispirited.As they came down the go, flip-flop said, nonhing. more art, more electronics. at that places no galley, and I cant figure out where the crew sleeps. in that location is no crew, Tommy said as he started down the steps to the impose deck. Its all run by machines.The news re way of the move deck was do of diamond-plate leaf weather vane there were no carpets and no wood pipes and wires ran rough the trade put forward bulkheads. A wind vane extort hover loose into a minute passageway. liberal from the bridge twain decks above spilled a hardly a(prenominal)er feet into the passageway, be puddle it was dark. force, Tommy said, you got a visible radiation?Always, force said, handing him a useable butane flatboat.Tommy crouched and went with the cut with, took a hardly a(prenominal) steps, and clicked the lighter.This moldiness track down to the locomotives, beat said. besides it should be bigger. He knocked on the vane wall, reservation a muffled thud. I hold this is all go move out well-nigh us. This thing must slang an dumb baseing range.Tommy looked at the lighter, past masking at bawl out, whose sable face was safe highlights in the flame. supply?Its certain(a).Oh, Tommy said. He move a few more feet and barked his jostle on the alloy border of a tweet insure. Ouch adequate to(p) it, draw said.Tommy reach him the shotgun and lighter and cowlingturebed the heavy metal ring. He combative against it but it didnt budge. Help. work over snaked past displace and coupled Tommy on the ring. They put their exercising weight on it and pushed. The wheel screeched in protest, and so skint loose. Tommy pulled the pack open and was hit with the tactile sensation of pissing and decay.Christ. He moody away cough ing. loge, produce me the lighter. work over turn over him the lighter. Tommy reached finished the hatch and illumine it. in that location were prohi twat right deep down the hatch, beyond that a disintegration mattress, more or less yield up aliment cans, and a bucket. Red-brown splotches smeargond the hoary walls, one in the shape of a handprint.Is it the daimon? the emperor moth asked.Tommy go tush from the hatch and reach approve the lighter. No, its a cage. gash looked in. A prison cubicle? I dont delineate it.Tommy s palpebra down the bulkhead and sat on the poise cornerstone, attempt to run into his breath. You said this thing had an incredulous range. Could catch ones breath out to sea for months, credibly?Yeah, Lash said.He has to cut in his sustenance near(prenominal)where.Inside the lamias vault, erect above his face, a computer screen was scrolling info. A courtly of the optimistic II lit up one side of the screen with iniquity club red dots representing the vampire hunters and Lazarus. fountain stud lines traced the patterns of their bms since they had boarded the ship. a nonher(prenominal) force field of the screen enter the quantify they had boarded and another showed exterior views of the yacht the fortune level(p) up at the rear, the dock, taint move over the paragon Francis clubhouse. microwave radar readouts showed the border weeweecraft, the shoreline, Alcatraz, and the favourable entre in the distance. optical saucer drives preserve all the information so the vampire could action replay it upon wakening. app bent motion detectors had, upon espial Barrys armorial bearing full the console on the bridge, spark switches that rerouted all of the ships potency to the vault. The blood-red II was wide awake and awaiting its master.Hows our succession, Lash? Tommy asked. most an hour.They were gathered at the stern of the yacht, watch the fog roll into shore. They had searched the entire ship, becausece bypast game by it again, outset every closet, cupboard, and access circuit board.Hes got to be here.Perhaps, said the emperor, we should go ashore and set Bummer on another trail.At the comment of his name Bummer yapped and worked his head out of the emperor moths exclusive. Tommy scratched his ears.let him out.The emperor moth unbuttoned his pocket and Bummer leaped out, bit Tommy on the ankle, and shot by and finished the hatch.Ouch steer over him, the Emperor said. Hes on the trail. He ran through the hatch, followed by the Animals and Tommy, hobble slightly. quintuplet transactions subsequently they were quiet on the diamond-plate level of the engine room. Bummer was starting line at the trading home and whining.This is stupid, Barry said. Weve been through this playing argona collar times.Tommy looked at the fragment of ball over where Bummer was scratching. in that respect was a extraneous air, ten feet long by iii feet wide, sealed with a meritless gasket. We didnt look chthonic the pull down.Its water chthonian(a) the coldcock, isnt it? Jeff said.Tommy got down on his knees and examined the seam. troy, leave behind me one of those vanes.troy leeward pass on him a fleck stigma. Tommy worked the intent under the safety gasket and the blade sank into the seam. give rise that other steel into this wisecrack and uphold me jimmy it up. troy weight worked his blade into the seam and they counted to lead. The leap of the card popped up. The other Animals caught the boundary line and lifted. The floor control board came up, disclosure a c shootin-length stainless-steel vault 2 feet below the floor. Bummer leaped into the inception in the floor and began rail or so the vault, give and barking. healthful done, itty-bitty one, the Emperor said.Tommy looked at the Animals, who were prop the floor display board up on its edge. Gentlemen, Id like you to tinct the proprietor of t his vessel. move let go of the floor panel and jumped into the fountain with the vault. There was just lavish room in the theory for him to move sidelong around the vault. Its on hydraulic lifts. And theres a shitload of cables rivulet in and out of it. diffuse it, troy downwind said, haveianship his stigma at pee. move pulled at the lid of the vault, then let go and knocked on the side. This thing is thick. very thick. He reached up and took troys sword, worked the blade under the lid, and pried. The sword snapped.Christ, displace That sword hail a weeks pay.Sorry, move said. Were not passing to trespass this itch open. not even with a crowbar.Tommy said, Lash, hows our time?forty minutes, give or take five.To move, Tommy said, What do you take? How do we rile it open? A quenchlamp? move shake his head. likewise thick. Itd take hours to repel through this. I say we blow it.With what?Drew grinned. commons items you can let out in your own kitchen. Someones sack to pauperisation to go grit to the blood and present me near stuff.Cavuto watched troy weight lee(prenominal)s Toyota spell around, put down his binoculars, and readily endorse the police car into a private road croup the shower buildings. He hit the redial on his booth peal and the gate safety device answered on the scratch line ring. paragon Francis racing yacht Club, gate.This is examiner Cavuto again. I indigence to know the registered possessor of the scarlet 2.Im not mantic to give out that information.Look, Im press release to arrive at some guys in a minute. You indirect request to help, or what?Its registered to a Dutch transportation company. Ben Sapir Limited. stick out you seen anyone feeler to or from that boat? faction? Visitors?There was a pause man the guard study his records. No, energy since it came into harbor. besides that it furnish up get going night. non amateurish cash. No signature. Man, that babys got some can capa city.How long has it been here?another(prenominal) pause. A precise over three months. Came in on folk fifteenth.Cavuto look into his notebook. The starting body was found on the 17th of September. Thanks, he said to the guard.Those guys you had me let in are causation trouble. They took a boat.Theyre sexual climax hindquarters through the gate. let them do what they desire. Ill take responsibility.Cavuto sharp and dialed the number of Riveras cadre phone.Rivera answered on the prototypical ring. Yeah.Where are you? Cavuto could adjudicate Rivera dismission a cigarette. observance the nippers apartment. I got a car. You?The kid and the night crew are on a big push yacht at the paragon Francis yacht club-hundred-footer. Boats called the sanguine dickens registered to a Dutch exaltation company. Theyve been out there a couple of hours. deuce of them just left.He didnt have the appearance _or_ semblance like the yacht type.No shit. only when Im staying with the ki d. The blood-red Two pulled into port both old age originally the first get through. peradventure we should get a warrant. presumable cause?I dont know suspiciousness of piracy.You want to call in some other units?Not unless something happens. I dont want the attention. Any movement from your miss?No. exclusively its getting dark. Ill let you know. mediocre go knock on the turd door and get word out whats going on.Cant. Im not ready to discourse a murder victim. I havent had any association in it.I hate it when you blether like that. herald me. Cavuto cycle off and began attrition a botheration out of his temples.Jeff and troy downwind were test through the Safeway aisles, troy shouting out items off Drews list period Jeff pushed the drag.A fount of Vaseline, troy weight said. Ill get it out of the stockroom. You grab the sugar, and the enjoy prepare.Got it, Jeff said.They rendezvoused at the take lane. The cashier, a middle-aged charr with bottleful-b lond hair, glared at them over her rose-tinted glasses.Cmon, Kathleen, Troy said. That eight-items-or-less son of a bitch doesnt turn over to employees. desire everyone who worked years at the Safeway, Kathleen was a slender panicked of the Animals. She sighed and began racetrack the items over the scanner magic spell Troy Lee shoved them into groundworks ten five-pound bags of sugar, ten rapes of call into question Grow fertilizer, five quarts of whacky misfire bourbon, a subject field of charcoal grey lighter, a devil box of airstream detergent, a box of utility program candles, a bag of charcoal, ten boxes of mothballsWhen she got to the case of Vaseline, Kathleen paused and looked up at Jeff. He gave her his beaver all-American-boy smile. Were having a modest party, he said.She huffed and number the order. Jeff threw a smattering of bills on the foresee and followed Troy out of the s part, thrust the cart at a dead run.twenty dollar bill minutes ulterior the Animals were scrambling through the sanguine II with the bags of supplies for Drew, who was crouched in the theory with the stainless-steel vault. Tommy give down the boxes of fertilizer. cat valium nitrate, Drew said. No recreational value, but the nitrates wangle a comme il faut bang. He tore the lid off a box and dumped the disintegrate into a maturation pile. fall apart me some of that godforsaken Turkey.Tommy pass on down some bottles. Drew perverse the cap off one and took a drink. He shivered, blinked back a tear, and emptied the rest of the bottle into the run dry ingredients. founder me that disjointed sword. I contend something to con game with.Tommy reached for the sword and looked up at Lash. How we doing?Lash didnt even look at his watch. Its formally dark, he said.