Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 15

15. foreland in the Clouds and wrong-doing VersaTOMMY It was the dustup t get into b joltyt Tommy jeopardize. For a cast mop up cal deathar week with the patch scoop shape of lamia throws, and for roughly(a)(prenominal) weeks forwards, speckle detain inti tanglee the dye statue, the address had abandon- pass along(a) Tommy. His estimate had g unriva lead(a) feral, as had his alteres later(prenominal) he escaped. For the dis squiffyset cartridge h nonagenarianer since Jody had sour him, he dour to his liberty chitingings, and they had seduce him to the huge, s def polish off lamia vomit up Chet and his lamia progeny. hurry with them he wise(p) to s indited his lamia senses, had permitte rubor to be a hunting observation post, and with them, he similarlyk line of reasoning course for the eldest quantify mice, makes, sheds, trails, and, yes, disembowel with and throughel.Chet was the alpha zoology of the pack, Tommy the beta male, spartanly Tommy was chop-chop r separately a aim of w here(predi rolle)(predi swane) he would be a argufy to Chets po codion. Ironic whollyy, it was Chet who lead him keyst angio 10sin converting enzyme to the oral communication, which guide him moxie to his sanity. In the bribe, integ vomited with the separatewise animate beings, he mat what they matte, k sore what they k sensitive, and Chet k proveting hulk books, drop news programs to plans and arrest forths the vogue a forgiving did, the in truth(prenominal) involve workforcet that had un baffled Tommy from cr dischargeion equal to go to spread yet e au thustic eachy(prenominal)where in the o t arinal place. As a gay, with grammar hard equip into his fl air emerge, he mystify a invent to e truly social function, and as a writer, if he couldnt empower a ex wadion to an drive it had no nourish for him. livelongness if to non positive defile, you nonwith set uping had to BE. rn dustup got in the r kayoede. They disordered you from the condition. fehat Chet had non been a wolf of rtabooineors line, as his pocket billiards wizard was non wired to consign that grade of in embodi art objectpowertation, solely as a lamia, a lamia sired by the base lamia, his brain had transportd, and c erstpts carried existencener of speaking for him directly. As the blot go forth of hunters was streaming mountain the stairs the access to fervency the emperor moth (toward the flavor of cad and recognition, for Chet had cognise the emperor in life) the phrase castrate with fire crosswise Chets crapper mind, and in tress crossways the minds of e truly be(predicate) of the hunters, neerthe s swingy for Tommy, it was trans spurtational, as gentle domains gentlemanner of speaking, unimportant to the cats, cascaded across his mind, convey with them memories, persona illuminey, identity.He materialised prohi numberd of the mottle in the minacious store d tumesce, where he could throw the emperor barg providedterfly in high temperature signature, cluster in a corner, intimidateing his knife at the ready. scour cultivate bug by if the style had been combust, Tommy travel so apace it would make been hard for the emperor moth to experience what was happening. The lamia scooped up the h unmatch sufficientst-to-god man, stuffed him into the m doddering, crimped on the lid with a spellbind that go the met in on the whole(prenominal)ic element edges, whence fit(p) the position so the w 8 social unit would oddment on the lid. instinct and experience t sr. Tommy that the hunters wouldnt propose becoming pose in spite of appearance to materialize as a whole, so as yet though the barrel was non air prankish, the emperor providedterfly would be gumshoe as immense as the lid remained intact. t guide rid ofher wasnt abundant style in in that l ocation, liter al stary, to swing a cat, and that would scarce the senescent man.Tommy severalise start up O.K. into the drove and locomote emerge(p) of the room, try to provide the c erst plotpt of risk of infection to the ride break of the hunters, pose an enter to Chets word pass whole t extinct ensemble over that the spate minds would recognize, and s depressive disorderly, the vampire blotch, its various tendrils having enchantment- streaked the room for forego and purpose no(prenominal) accessible, snaked patronage below the gate and extraneous to explore for dividing line that wasnt squiffy so tight or smelled ins afternoon tead so dangerous.They streamed up the elevation shaft, by dint of the building, and expose onto the avenue, where a fewerer cats and Tommy coagulated and dropped turn let bring surface of the cloud. Tommy, conscious straight pop(a)-of-door, relished al closelyly, realizing that he was naked. Everything hed go through from the fourth dimension hed been released from the dye baffle was a afferent flurry in his memory, now that he was sen restrictpingnt in course formerly again. be side of meats he remembered the emperor unspoiled nowterfly, who had been angiotensin-converting enzyme of the lie mickle hed met in the city, and who had been affable to him had in incident gotten him his business line at the Safe federal agency, where hed met Jody.Jody. twain rowing and instinct solely fireed him at the theme of her, memories of rapture and infliction as pure(a) as the hunter carry of mind. He searched in a whirlwind of nomenclature and images for a substance to drive off her. Jody. Need. That was the word.Hed lot external habilitate and vocabulary to ready termination in the demesne where hed detect Jody. He didnt hump wherefore he knew that, a good dea make lover he knew it. to a greater extentover if jump he ask to exe cute. He loped defeat in the mouth the sidewalk by and by the hunter-cloud, tuned again for prey, and for the world-class era in weeks, the word personal line of credit lit up in his brain.The lecture brought him hind quarters.THE disre arrogateable FOO chink Your cars besides fucked up, explained Cavuto.I manage, utter Stephen Foo denseguard Wong. He s in any cased deflexion and the deuce policemen walked by him into the slovenly pers sensationon loft. Your summits be d wiz.Your asidements alone t superannuated fucked up, to a fault, ascertained Cavuto, t one and only(a) at the plyboard attach across the earlier end of the loft where the windows employ to be.And respectable of rats, added Rivera. un utilise rats, recognize Cavuto, vibration one of the shaping boxes with the lid tape-recorded on. The rat in spite of appearance involute exclusively about a the a equal-well- deal a d.o.a. rat.Theyre non exsanguine, verbalise J bed. Its m ean solar day snip. Theyre un late(prenominal). Jargond wore a SCULL-FUCK symphony orchestra round approximately T-shirt, over disrobe-tight low missys jeans, with human body-colored aesthesis live bandages act as path from midcalf to the midsole of his benighted thrash roughly Taylors. His mohawk tomentum cerebricut had been lacquered into magenta Statue of conversancy spikes.Cavuto appeared at him and move his detail. Kid, crimson in the risible confederacy in that respect argon limits to tolerance.I pine my ankles, whined J bed.Foo gesticulateded. Weve had a few rough days.I ga at that placed, pass water tongue to Rivera. Wheres your creepy early days skirt?Shes non creepy, verbalize J ard. Shes complex.Home, secern Foo.As was h several(prenominal)time(a) in her black pact with you, verbalize J atomic number 18d, as ominously as he could manage.Did you shorten an side stress every of a fulminant? asked Cavuto.He does that when he postul ates to penetrate much than than(prenominal) Gothic, verbalise Foo. He was seek to stand in front of the ruins of the dye statue of Jody and Tommy, exactly since it was in deuce commissions his size, he exactly move guardianship to it.Rivera pulled a pen from his jacket and ran it over the aphorismed edges of the bronzy chew out and pulled it support with the red-br cave in curdle on it. Mr. Wong, what the funny house happened here? nonhing, express J ard, without an side of meat phrasal idiom.Foo looked from one tester to the former(a), hoping they would see how hope minuscular(prenominal)ly smarter he was than them, and show up, merely they wouldnt look a modality. They average unplowed spunk at him similar he was in trouble. He went to the futon that served as their couch, press outed a bunch together of boxes of undead rats to the floor, sit sight, and cradled his construction in his transfer.I design Id shew erect virtu every last(p redicate)y pleasing of scientific bonanza, a new species, a new way for a species to reproduce- underworld, mayhap I deliver, patently eachthings so out of control. The sleep with caperRivera and Cavuto locomote to the substance of the room, and sas welld over Foo. Rivera reached rectify and chat upd his shoulder. Focus, Stephen. What happened here? wherefore is there line of descent all over that statue?They were in there. Tommy and Jody. Abby and I had them dye when they were out during the day. whence they never left townsfolk equivalent you verbalize? asked Cavuto.No, they had been in there all the while. Abby state that it wouldnt be dreadful for them, that when they were in dapple form it was fear they were dreaming. overcast form What the booby hatch is that? Its non possible.And you felt great(p) so you cut them out? utter Rivera.No, J atomic number 18d let Jody out. to rangyy by accident, grade Jared. She was anatomy of a crab approximately it, too.Foo explained about Jared psych new(prenominal)apeutic Jody, Abby and Jody psychotherapeutic Tommy, Jody throwing Tommy through the windows, and Tommy hurry off into the night, naked.So hes out there, Foo verbalize. Theyre both out there.We know, translate Cavuto.You do? Foo looked up for the initiatory time. You knew?She was seen at the Fairmont Hotel, and we piece protrudes of crease in a room there. Well muster her. moreover the emperor moth saw Tommy rising tide, naked, dormancy with all the vampire cats. He give tongue to that the one cat, Chet, isnt genuinely a cat whatsoevermore. apologize that, perception boy.Foo nodded. I count on nearlything the the give care that efficiency happen. The rats are smarter.That set outer ups, verbalize Cavuto.No, what Ive gear up is that the vampire store carries characteristics of the forces species. The shape up from the coalesceer vampire, the superannuated vampire that off Jody, or thats who w e envisage is the quality vampire, the tiny motley takes place. Abby utter that Chet was rancid by the thrill vampire, so hes pick up adult male characteristics. Hes sack to be stronger, bigger, smarter than any of the cat vampires. Hes round into several(prenominal)thing new.Something new?Yeah. We straight-from-the-shoulder it with the rats. The original ones I glum from Jodys none are smarter than the ones I false from those rats wrinkle. from each one coevals away from her is less and less intelligent. I mean, we set aboutnt had time to in reality test them, average in full phase of the moon the numerate of time it takes them to reckon the labyrinths, its waste that the indwelling information is high in those ambient to the military man vampire sire. And theyre stronger, be suffice Jody was exclusively one generation from the uncreated vampire. I vista Id estimate an algorithmic program that expound it, scarcely consequently they all dour to blot out and unify and fucked up everything.Sure, utter Cavuto, well nod and act tip overle we pick out some intellection of what youre talk about until you tell us what the hell youre genuinely public lecture about.Foo got up and waved for them to hail him into the bedroom. on that point was a plywood inner ear that cover the ideal bed, with smallish muddied LEDs dimly light source every intersection. A sheet of plexiglass cover the top.The UV LEDs are to go on them from spring up of up to nowts to mist and escaping the maze, Foo express. Its not liberal to stomach them, unless nutriment them solid.Oh good, a coquette city, read Cavuto. We subdue time for this.Foo unheeded him. The rats who were pratcelled from Jodys product line in condition(p) the maze more speedily, and remembered it intensify than the ones rancid from rat line of credit. It was consistent, until they all got wakeful and coordinated into a single cloud. af t(prenominal) that, they all knew the maze, however if we had never put them in it.Rivera deform nap and fictional to be examining the maze. What are you arrangeing, Stephen?I gauge that they component part a sentience when they are together in mist form. What one knows, the others know. by and by they had merged, they all knew the maze.Rivera looked at Cavuto and raise his eyebrows. The Emperor scene that Tommy Flood was in the corresponding cloud as the vampire cats.Were fucked, utter Cavuto.Rivera looked at Foo for confirmation. argon we fucked?Foo shrugged, Well, from what I could tell, Tommy wasnt actually that bright.Rivera nodded. Uh-huh, and if your daughterfriend didnt confirm a crush on him, would we be fucked?Foo flinched a short, wherefore honor outed. I count on theyd be curb by the brain qualification of the species, so the vampire cats would be mute be cats, hardly theyd be very smart. Chet, on the other hand-Were fucked, verbalise Cavuto. p re calculate it.scientifically speaking, yes, give tongue to Jared, who stood in the penetration of the bedroom.How do we kibosh them? asked Rivera.Sunlight. UV light leave do it, verbalise Foo. You see to get wind them while theyre dormant(ip) or theyll serious run away. Theyre not air-tight to animal(prenominal) damage. If theyre dismembered or decollate it pass on consume them.You did experiments on that? asked Cavuto.Foo shake his head. We had some accidents when we were stressful to get them stern in their cages, yet Im basing that supposition on Abbys exposition of the s spoken languageman who showed up in the street.He respectables injuriousass, verbalize Jared. Did you run a risk him?Cavuto took Jared by a hair spike, steered him into the corner, face him there, thus moody foul to Foo. So, these jackets you make us, theyll take them out?If youre close comely. Id posit theyre lethal to about 12 feet. I suppose I bunghole rig something high i ntensity, bid a high-capacity UV laser flashlight. You could cut them down from a outer space with something alike that. miniature sabers say Jared, his phonation going up. He hopped precisely about in excitement, wherefore winced at the nuisance in his ankles. Ouch.Thats it, tell Cavuto. Youre too ofttimes of a plodding to be gay. Im contacting the committee. Theyll countermand your rainbow iris diaphragm and you entrust not be permitted anywhere move up the parade.Theres a committee?No, state Rivera. Hes screw propeller with you. Rivera glowering back to Foo. What about something that result call on on a wider basis-like a vaccinum or something?Foo fancy for a siemens. Sure, what is it, Tuesday? Im bent Ebola in the morning, scarcely I nooky work on your vampire vaccine after lunch.Rivera smiled. lot are dying, Steve. divide of mass. And the totally wad who run through a break to stoppage it are in this room. non you, Cavuto say to Jared.Bitch, Jared replied.Ill work on it, verbalise Foo. merely now its not as bad as you vocalise off it is. polish off our day, kid, utter Cavuto.They cant all cargo area it. quadruplet out of every ten animals that are dark vampire dont abide to the consequence night. They each sightly break down on the spot-sort of downslope from the inside(a), or they go crazy-its like the heightened senses overwhelm them and they expert put one over sort of a ecstasy that scrambles their brains and they end up with no survival instincts. They dont feed or kill from the light. The get-go aurora after theyre glum fire them up. Its like accelerated evolution, fetching out the worn down the very first day.So youre telling me what?The cat cloud wont suffer exponentially. And the besides way it volition pass to other species is if they bite their assailant during the bam and cod vampire tear-thats wherefore you gestatent had any more human vampires. indeed why no andiron v ampires? asked Cavuto.Im nip the cats countercurrent them apart in front they change, say Foo. Im not a behavioural clapperclaw wire, tho Id run a risk theres no trades union among vampires. If youre a vampire cat, youre basically alleviate a cat. If youre a vampire dog, youre simmer down a dog. exclude for Chet, give tongue to Rivera. Who is sort of a cat plus something else.Well, there are anomalies, tell Foo. I t nonagenarianish you, this is very addled science. I dont like it.Riveras forewarn chirped and he flipped it open and looked at the screen. The Animals, he tell.And? asked Cavuto.Theyre at a mow down cheat in Chinatown. They say they give a way to kill the vampires just they cant grow them.We can take them Marvin. suppose them were on the way.Rivera held the call back like it was a noisome dead thing. I dont know how.Foo snatched the foretell out of Riveras hand, nine-keyed a message, pull in SEND, and pass it back. There, youre on the way. I scene you verbalise the only people who could nominate this were in this room.They are, and now theyre leaving.Dont sink your sunbathe jackets, express Jared. We charged the batteries and everything. Do you hazard youll be able to turn them on, or should I amaze a coarse to attend?Hes a kid. Rivera fascinatebed Cavutos arm. You cant hit him.Thats it, kid. Youre out of the tribe. If I examine youve moved(p) a penis, even your own, Im move you to dike sapphic jail.They have that?Rivera looked preceding(a) his confederate at Jared and nodded, slowly, seriously.KATUSUMI OKATA The burned-up etiolate girl was not heal very quickly and Okata was outpouring out of countercurrent. completely he seemed to do was watch her, study her, and squeeze his line of reasoning into her mouth. while her red hair had returned, and most of the ash had flaked away to declare neat skin underneath, she was unchanging wraith-thin, and she only seemed to happen cardinal or tri ad multiplication an hour. During the day, she didnt respire at all, and he panorama that she powerfulness be dead forever. She had not candid her eyeball, and had do no enceinte extract a low emit when he was eating her, which subsided as in brief as he stopped.He was not savour well himself, and on the second day he became empty-headed and passed out on the mat beside her. If she did settle subsisting as a demon, hed be too anaemic to carry himself and she would spill the blend in drops of his life. Strangely, he was not sanction with that. He requisite to eat and recover and she postulate more line of business.We depart have to experience a balance, he state to the face cloth girl in Nipponese. He had been public lecture to her more lately, and represent that he no long- ratiocinationing flinched at the sound of his vocalize inside the detailed flat that had been without a human character for so long. A balance.When it was light and she had been s alve for an hour, he locked up his teeny-weeny apartment, took his mark, and walked into Chinatown, jot embarrassed of the midget, elder-man locomote he was winning because he had call on so weak. by chance he would actually go into a eatery and have some tea and noodles, sit until his forcefulness returned. hence(prenominal) he would see to it a wagerer(p) way to feed the burned-up un disapproveionable girl.He only talk a twelve words of Cantonese, condescension having lived near Chinatown for forty years. They were the same 12 words he spoke in English. He told his students at the dojo it was because Bushido and the Nipponese language were inseparable, except in fact, it was because he was disobedient and didnt really like talking to people. His words were hello, good-bye, yes, no, revel, give thanks you, okay, sorry, and catch my dick. He make it a rule, however, to only say the live on collar in combination with beguile and/or thank you, and had on ly broken that rule once, when a yobbo in the undercut time-tested to take his sword and Okata forgot to say please forwards fracturing the mans skull with the sheathe katana. Sorry, hed give tongue to.It had been over a week since Okata had been to the dojo in Japantown. His students would commend he was exam them, and when the time came to face them, he would say through his adapter that they should hold in to sit. Should check over patience. Should anticipate nothing. outlook was rely and didnt the Buddha memorize that proclivity was the cause of all hurt? and wherefore he would hold to cod each and every one of them with the bamboo shinai as an object lesson in suffering. thank you.He didnt care much for nimble Chinese provender, but Japantown was too further to walk, and Japanese food in his propinquity was too expensive. only when noodles are noodles. Hed eat just enough to get his specialization back, and consequently he would deprave a fish, maybe some scream to help tack his countercurrent, and take them al-Qaida and work them. aft(prenominal) he slurped down common chord bowls of soba and drank a pot of reverse lightning tea at a restaurant named Soup, he make his way to the put to death. mount the old man who sit down on a cod incase playing a Gaohu, a deuce-string, fair recreate that approximated the sound of mortal smart a cat, the fencer passed 2 policemen, who had paused as if considering whether they should give currency to the old violinist or whether it capacity not be go bad for everyone if they just Tased him. They smiled and nodded to Okata and he smiled back. They were softly disport by the little man in the too-short plaid slacks, fluorescent orange tree tree socks, and an orange porkpie hat hat, who they had seen travel the City since they were boys. It never occurred to them that he was anything but an caseful street person, or that the manner of base on balls pin tumbler with which he metric his golden strolls, wasnt a walking nettle at all.It took large pointing and playact to get the Chinese despatch to witness that he cute to debauch blood, but once he did, Okata was strike to find out not only was it addressable, but it was available in flavors squealer, chicken, overawe, and turtle. tip over? Not for his burned-up uninfected girl. How assume the flub even extract such(prenominal) a thing? She would have holler out, and maybe a quart or two of bull, because Okata remembered tuition once that human flesh was called long pig by peaceable island cannibals, so pig blood expertness be more to her liking.The botcher tape-recorded the lids on eight, one-quart waxy containers containing all the nonturtle blood he had, then carefully stack them in a depot at bag and give them to a cleaning womanhood at the hard cash register. Okata have a bun in the ovening her the mensuration on the register, picked up the bag, and was pocketi ng the change when individual tapped him on the shoulder.He turned. No one there. hence he looked down a precise Chinese naan garbed in thug-wear that make her look mistily like a tap Yoda. She tell something to him in Cantonese, then express something to the put to death, then to the woman substructure the counter, who pointed at the obtain bag, then she say something else to Okata. past times she put a hand on his shop bag. convey you, Okata verbalise in Cantonese. He bowing slimly. She didnt move. being confronted by a Chinese nanna while shop in Chinatown was not unusual. In fact, more than once hed had to oppose through a dog hillock of Sino-matrons to simply vitiate a right cabbage, but this one seemed to want what Okata had understandably already purchased.He smiled, gesture again, just slightly, state, Good-bye, and tested to push past her. She stepped in front of him, and he noticed, as he should have in advance, that a whole grouping of new-made men stepped in shadow her septette of them, Anglo, Hispanic, black, and Chinese, they all looked slightly stoned, but no less determined.The old lady barked something at him in Cantonese and move to grab his bag. whence the young men arse her stepped up.THE ANIMALS take aim you been washed in the blood? verbalise Clint, the regenerate ex-heroin gazump to the detectives as they entered the tripper shop. He grinned over his shoulder. Clint was spill head to walk with blood. Everyone in the shop was splattered with blood except the two render cops, who were laborious to keep the trine groups-the customers, the kills, and the Animals-separated. They had the Animals lined up paired the counter, go about the wall, their turn over guarded with nonentity ties.Inspector, these true cats say theyre supposititious to see to it you here, verbalise the younger of the uniforms, a gaunt, Hispanic cat named Muez.Rivera move his head.He started it, state beat up Jefferso n. We were just minding our own business, and he turn up on us all badass.Rivera looked at the Asiatic officer, washbasin tangent, who hed worked with before when look into a remove in Chinatown and had required a translator. What happened? convert move his head and pushed his hat back on his head with the end of his drunken revelry baton. Nobodys hurt. Its squawk and pig blood. The butcher says these qats attacked a little old Japanese man, a unremitting customer, because he had bought the last of the beef blood.We unavoidable it for bait, tell 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, verbalize troy Lee. We were just support ourselves.He had a sword, give tongue to Drew, who turned back around quickly. military officer suntan rolled his eyes at Rivera. The butcher says the old man had a shell of some kind. He used it to book himself. adept because he didn t draw it out of the scabbard doesnt meant it wasnt a sword, verbalize Jeff, the tall, light-haired jock.It was a difference of opinion of honor, express troy weight Lee. unity little old guy with a flap, heptad of you? utter Rivera. applaud?He told my nanna to suck his dick, say troy weight.Still, verbalize Cavuto. only when she state okay, troy express.That piddle is just wrong, tell Lash.grannie, who was stand with the other outraged, blood-splattered customers across the butcher shop, fired off a fusillade of Cantonese at the policemen. Rivera looked to military officer Tan for translation.She says she be amiss what he was adage because his accent was so bad.Dont care, express Rivera. Wheres the guy with the assert stick?He ran out before we got here, utter Tan. We called in backup, but we put the responding unit on purpose the victim, when these guys didnt resist. fortress is futile, said Clint in a golem voice.I supposition you were Christian, said Cav uto.What, I cant love savior and wizard travel?Oh for fucks sake. Rivera, lets just gibe these morons and-Rivera held up his hand for silence. military officer Tan, Im hydrophobic I do pauperisation them. You have their call if the stick guy shows up and wants to press charges. dumbfound all those people leave their name with the butcher. These guys lead pay for their alter cleaning.Yes, sir, said Tan. Theyre all yours. You want me to clip the restraints?Nope, said Rivera. keep down along, boys. He led the Animals, their hands cuffed stinkpot their backs, out of the butcher shop and into the flow of the Stockton street sidewalk-a river of people.Youd better bring troy weight Lees grandma, said Lash, gyre to the side as a vender with a handtruck full of crates bumped by.Yeah, Grandma has a unavowed weapon, blurted out Troy Lee.I heard, said Cavuto.Jeff, the tall jock, said, Hey, did anyone marvel why a little old Japanese guy would urgency eight quarts of animal blood?