The answer to this was simple. I dropped to my knees and swung the blade around my face, over my head, angled the blade up… and it was done. The vampire’s head rolled back down the bank and bounced when it hit the pile of bodies that had begun to form there, landing in the river with a splash. Ren paused, double-taking, his eyes round as he took me in. “What was that?” he breathed. “I don’t know. I just—”
