Knock_A Void City Novella by J. F. Lewis

Author:J. F. Lewis [Lewis, J. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, vampire, Vrykolakas, Staked, Crossed, Void City, vampires, Supernatural, Urban Fantasty, Burned, paranormal, werewolf, Urban Fantasy, Werewolves, Revamped
Publisher: J. F. Lewis
Published: 2018-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Greta: Glorious

Twelve werewolves roamed parking lots in pairs going from apartment building to apartment building smelling for us. Each building in Void City Gardens is a three story twelve unit apartment plan with an open central hallway between the units on opposite sides on each level. Five sets of apartment buildings are close to the front office and across from the swimming pool, tennis courts, and workout room. There are another eight up a slight hill around to the right and eight more up a larger hill on the left.

Even with the extra location obfuscation, it wasn’t going to take them that long to find me even if they went all in a group and these guys were splitting up. About half of these guys had gray fur, the others going to darker or lighter shades of brindle and brown. My apartment building was up the hill. Kyle’s was down.

Like most apartment complexes in the South, the building planners had left lots of wooded area (mostly pine trees here) to help the homes feel more like they were woodsy, baffle sound, and give a better view than the nearest strip mall or office park. Using the tree line as cover, I sprinted down the back of my building and down the hill toward building three.

One gray and one brown werewolf were padding up to the second floor of Kyle’s building so I leapt up to the balcony of Kyle’s rear neighbor across the hall and walked through the apartment, snapping the lock on the sliding glass door with a good hard vampire tug. His neighbors (Todd 1 and Todd 2 because I couldn’t remember their names) were curled up on the couch watching TV.

They froze there, one Todd with a piece of popcorn halfway to his lips and the other in the middle of lighting a cigarette. Still as statues! Yes! Norbert works on humans! I plucked the lighter from Todd 2’s fingers so that he wouldn’t burn himself. Then I ripped his throat out to see if the blood tasted different when a person was paralyzed by the Hand of Glory.

It didn’t.

I thought the paralysis was supposed to work until somebody poured milk on the candle to extinguish it or until it burned down, but I drained Todd 1 too so he wouldn’t give me away with a whole bunch of screaming if the magic let him go. Either that or I was just hungry. Either is equally likely. With Todd 1, I was paying closer attention and I noticed the arterial spray actually did take a second or two to really get going like a faucet where the water drips, stops, then goes full blast.

Good to know.

Now to test Norbert out on werwolves! The warmth from the Todds had me feeling all pink and warm, not full, but more full than usual so I started humming Henry Mancici’s “Pink Panther Theme” as I stalked by prey.

“I smell vampire,” one said.

“I smell shapeshifter,” the other one said.

My two

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