nina bangspMackenzie Vampires 03 by A Taste of Darkness

Author:A Taste of Darkness [Darkness, A Taste of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-13T16:17:03+00:00

Kisa felt as though someone had punched her in the stomach. All the air left her lungs in a whoosh. "Dead?"

Mason touched her shoulder. "We'd better take a look."

She wanted to say, "No. You take a look. I'll stay right here and wait for you." She'd never witnessed violent death. Even though her whole family turned into cats in one form or another, they were civilized cats. In a fit of feline exuberance they might bring down a rabbit, but that was the extent of their rampant killing sprees.

Kisa really didn't want to see this. Daniel and Mason waited for her response. She nodded.

It was both not as bad as and worse than she'd expected. Voskie had almost completely disintegrated already, leaving only clothes and the wooden stake used to kill her. Not as bad to look at as Kisa had expected.

But Voskie had died because of Kisa, because of something she knew that the killer didn't want her to pass on. The attack of conscience Kisa felt was worse than she had expected.

Mason stared down at what was left of the dead vampire. "Too bad she had a heart."

Puzzled, Kisa looked at him. "What do you mean?"

"There're physical differences among vampire groups. For example, when members of the Mackenzie clan become vampires, their body systems change. They don't have a heart as we know it, so staking them wouldn't do any good. The night feeders have hearts but heal quickly, so if you want a permanent solution, you'd better separate the heart from the body." He looked down at Voskie. "She must've had a heart, but there won't be any regenerating taking place here."

"You know a lot about vampires." Kisa had to say something, anything, to take her mind off Voskie's death.

"I've done a lot of research." Mason didn't seem about to expand on that.

"But you didn't know who the dachnavars were." Daniel sounded like he was simply making a statement of fact.

"I didn't do that much research. Come on, how many people know about them? They're pretty obscure." Mason's tone was casual.

Then why did she sense something defensive in his voice?

Daniel shrugged. "I guess so." He raked his fingers through his hair. "Police won't do any good here. We need to tell Sparkle what happened and then talk to the other two dachnavars." He looked at Kisa. "Whoever is behind the attacks on you is playing for keeps. I guess I couldn't convince you to stay in the inn with family members around you at all times."

"I won't hide behind my family. But I won't be stupid either. I'll make sure someone is with me whenever I go out." She knelt down to take a closer look at the clothes that were all that was left of Voskie. "Look at her clothes. They look like someone slashed them."

Mason peered closer. "A knife?"

"Werecat's claws?" Daniel's voice was soft, but that didn't make it any less dangerous.

"Why would—" She didn't get any farther.

There was the sound of flapping wings above them, followed by breaking branches, loud curses, and a solid thud as the harpy hit the ground.

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