Bat Shift Crazy: An Ex-Shifter turned Vampire Hunter Urban Fantasy (The Legend of Nyx Book 2) by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2021-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty

Rutherford came and took Debbie to have breakfast-another freshly acquired blood bag, I presumed.

I almost forgot I'd promised to help Malinda. It dawned on me, though, that what she needed was Debbie's blood. After my conversation with Devin's mom the night before, how could I even begin approaching that subject with her? It was less than a day before when Debbie wanted to see the true death, when she'd flown around the place in bat form angry about what she was, about where we'd taken her. It was a lot to expect her, now, to help a witch by allowing another witch to use her blood for a spell. There had to be another way. Another youngling, fresh off a feed, perhaps. I was a vampire hunter, after all. While I'd done more slaying than hunting, recently, I knew how to find younglings. It wasn't hard. And New Orleans was basically the vampire capital of the world-aside from Transylvania, perhaps. Finding a youngling couldn't be that hard.

Finding a blood witch and smuggling her and a youngling into both Vilokan and from there into the asylum was another matter entirely.

One thing about the Vilokan Asylum that was moderately impressive was that the kitchen catered to various unique diets. For me, since I used to eat humans, they always gave me chicken.

Because human tastes like chicken. Really, it does.

They apparently didn't realize that I'd expanded my menu over the years. I didn't only eat chicken now. I found several other protein sources that were just as satisfying. In Kansas City, that meant a lot of barbecue.

The chicken they served me on my plate was bland by comparison. But it filled the hole. One of the nurses fed Malinda, spooning her some mush that I imagined represented a balanced human diet. Looked like vomit. Probably tasted like it, too. The nurses, though, were too oblivious to realize that Malinda would care.

I didn't know what half of the supernatural creatures seated around the tables in the cafeteria were. No vampires at the time were there. I would have smelled them. But there was what looked like a man with an owls' head and a human body, albeit covered in feathers, feasting on what looked like a roasted rat. A shifter, perhaps, stuck halfway between forms. I made a mental note not to go near him if I became a bat at any point, again, while at the asylum. Bats are basically flying rats, after all.

There was another person, a young girl with a bucket next to her. She continually dipped a sponge into it and spread the water over her body. She had crab legs and a filet of fish on her plate-I was mildly jealous.

Curious, I sat down next to her. "I'm Nicky," I said.

The girl looked at me and cocked her head. "What are you, Nicky?"

"I used to be a water elemental," I said. "What about you?"

"I'm a mermaid," the girls said. "A Fomorian, technically."

"A mermaid?" I asked. "Where's your tail?"

The girl smiled as she spread her sponge across one of her arms.

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