Blood Loss: A Vampire Story by Maslen Andy

Author:Maslen, Andy [Maslen, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Vampires
Publisher: Tyton Press
Published: 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

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Caroline Murray’s Journal, 17th November 2010

I have David back. After we returned to London, the others dropped us off at the flat. Shimon said they had work to do setting another trap to catch Peta Velds. Plus they had those disks to destroy. I asked, perhaps foolishly, if they were going to “wipe” them, though I confess I had no clear idea of what that means, or even whether it’s a real thing.

Shimon just laughed and said they were going to use “a bloody big hammer”. Crude but effective, I suppose.

Last week, I took David to see a blood specialist in Harley Street. I thought barristers were well paid but after he presented his bill I swear I trained in the wrong profession.

David told me that Peta had indeed bitten him, and the plasters were covering up the evidence. She did it the very first night he was up there, the bitch. But here’s the most amazing part of this. The results came through yesterday morning and his blood is completely free of parasites. No infections. No raised T-cell count. Nothing. She had him under some sort of hypnotic spell, but to be honest, any moderately forceful woman could probably achieve the same results with David. However, there is an interesting side angle to all the good news.

David has a rare blood disorder. Something called n-Theta-Haemoblasticity. It’s asymptomatic, although it has been linked to bipolar disorder – who knew? – but it hyper-stimulates the sufferer’s white blood cells. In David’s case, they multiplied to 1,000 times their normal concentration. I think they just basically destroyed the parasites that came through into his bloodstream from Peta Velds’s saliva.

I called Ariane, who is back from New York, though without Tomas – dreadful news. She was close to tears several times as we spoke. I told her that we, at least, had been successful, and she told me what to do with David to be absolutely sure he was “pure”, as she put it. Actually, it was a rather pleasant day.

First we went for a walk in the sunshine. It was bitterly cold and I had my good coat on, but Ariane said David should expose as much of his skin as possible. We got some funny looks, I can tell you. Me in a floor-length greatcoat buttoned up to my chin and poor David in shorts and a T-shirt. But he was fine. Well, blue with cold but no exploding, thank God. Then we had to expose him to garlic oil. I booked a table at Café da Aldo in Soho and we stuffed our bellies with garlic bread and spaghetti ali e oli. The restaurant is still open and still wearing its original décor, which, by the way, I don’t think has changed since about 1972. Finally, the worst test and the only bit of the day I regret.

After lunch we went to the middle of Soho square and sat on one of the benches. It was empty, apart from a

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