“Very well, Mr. Michaels. It would seem that these fellows are indeed not yet full vampires. You may proceed.” “I am a vampire,” came the voice of the one that was still conscious, although he’d made no move to get up yet. I bent down to him just as Vermont’s stake hand twitched again. “If you are a vampire, you are about to get staked.” “Oh,” he said in a rather disappointed voice. “In that case, I might not be after all.”

