The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

Quiet, quiet, children… Mamma, are they demons? Is it the Wild Hunt? Phantoms from hell? Mamma, mamma! Quiet, quiet, children. They are not demons, not devils… Worse than that. They are people.

The mule was called Draakul. It was so named by Regis immediately after being stolen and so it remained. Regis was clearly entertained by the name, which no doubt had some amusing significance in the culture and speech of vampires, but which he did not wish to explain to us, claiming it was an untranslatable pun.

am aware that being a man I cannot imagine what such a loss means for a woman.

To make it funnier still, the first to yell “Werewolf! Werewolf!” had been the vampire, Regis.