Monster Stalker: A Darquepunk Novel by Elizabeth Watasin

Author:Elizabeth Watasin
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: A-Girl Studio
Published: 2015-09-20T22:00:00+00:00

Nico had read that Makepeaces did not care for prevarication. She gave as short an explanation as possible.

“Sexual trafficking,” she said.

1634 continued to aim for her face.

“And I happened to answer their want ad,” Nico said.

“To do what, potential citizen?”

“To serve drinks; hostess. Just quick money for the night.” Please don’t think I came to join up as an enforcer.

1634 seemed to weigh her answer, then slowly lowered one’s weapon. One moved passed Nico and entered the house.

Nico let out breath and didn’t follow. She stepped outside and looked at the containment field running along the ranch house’s perimeter, emitted from discs embedded in the ground. She looked up, and saw the field arc overhead; she had nowhere to go. Nico appreciated 1634’s effectiveness. Had she time to plan better, she would have trapped everyone in the house with her. But the temptation to beat on the johns and traffickers until they turned into mushy pulp would have been too great. Even breaking a john’s back had been pushing it.

The johns who’d fled sat within another containment circle, their hands up to hide their faces. Nico filmed them, then sent the additional footage to her bus locker and for Vasquez to pick up. Children and girls who weren’t too doped up to walk emerged from the ranch house with 1634’s help. They were all human; none were vampires. Nico looked away and stared into the dark.

The ordeal was over for some; a few might have a home to go back to. The more ruined ones would disappear back into the sex trade, and the cold-eyed girls, especially, would make more girls like themselves. Nico glanced back and saw the bait girls mingling with the others; victims pretending they were still victims, when they were victims become predators.

This yer new friend, Nicky? Her maker held a girl down. Now watch, luv.

Her thoughts slid again, falling off the blank spot in her mind. The veldt’s darkness beyond gave her no ghosts.

“I’ve got nothing,” she said. The little girl she’d broken a john’s back for approached. Someone had dressed her in a man’s tee shirt. She walked up in her bare feet and stared at Bear, her eyes distant and dead. Nico looked elsewhere and wished she’d go away.

When the girl didn’t, Nico reached down. She guided the child to her, and then helped her wrap her arms around herself and Bear. She placed a hand on the child’s back while the cold-eyed girls watched.

Are my eyes like theirs? Or am I feeling something so deep, I don’t know I’m feeling it?

The girl that had been held down shuffled up too, her face streaked with tears, but there was fury present within her anguish. Nico thought that was good. When Nico removed her hand, the little girl dropped her embrace. Nico put her in the girl’s arms.

“Thank you,” the girl said tremulously. She moved to hug Nico too.

“Don’t touch me,” Nico said. “Uh, you...I think you’ll be okay.” She turned away again. The Makepeace stood before her.

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