The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

Author:Catherine Jinks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Self-help groups, Fiction, Humorous Stories, Mysteries, Espionage, Mystery and detective stories, Horror, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Magic, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Action & Adventure - General, Vampires, Action & Adventure, Humorous, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), General, Fantasy, & Detective Stories, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780152066093
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-03-23T00:55:29.012000+00:00

16

I’m going to cheat a bit now. I’m going to tell you something that wasn’t known to me until long after it actually happened.

You see, while Dave and I were out cold in Father Ramon’s garage, Nefley Irving was climbing through Dave’s kitchen window.

Let me introduce you to Nefley first. At the time of which I speak, he was a postal worker. Don’t imagine that he served behind a counter, exchanging gossip and counting out change; his job was in mail sorting, so he didn’t have to interact with many people at all. And this was just as well, because he’d never been very sociable. In public he was shy and timid, hovering on the fringes of every conversation – unless that conversation dealt with horror movies, psychics, or paranormal phenomena. Nefley always had a lot to say on those topics: so much, in fact, that he could become very boring to listen to. The world of the paranormal was his obsession. He spent most of his free time reading books about ley lines and alchemy and demonic possession, watching films about shape-shifters and witchcraft, and researching occult subjects on his computer.

Needless to say, he wasn’t married. Nor did he have a girlfriend. In fact he didn’t have any friends at all, except the ones he’d made over the Internet. To some of these Internet friends he’d expounded his theory about the role of evil on earth: how evil was a kind of spiritual waste product that had to be collected in certain ‘vessels’, so that it wouldn’t spill out and contaminate everything. Some of these vessels were inanimate: rocks and weapons and houses. Some of them, however, were human beings.

There were also Hemihoms, who were supposed to be half-human, half-animal. According to Nefley, they were the most dangerous vessels of all, because they contained a concentrated mixture of conscious and unconscious evil. Vampires, he told his Internet friends, were Hemihoms. And they were a danger to the entire human race.

At this point you must be thinking that Nefley was out of his mind. But he wasn’t. There are lots of perfectly sane people who create their own weird philosophies, and Nefley was no different. Nor was he particularly violent or cruel. On the contrary, he wanted to be a hero. He wanted to be a warrior fighting for good against evil.

His problem was that he didn’t have anyone sensible to talk to.

When he posed as Fangseeker on the Net, Nefley was still living in a kind of fantasy world. But Casimir’s response changed all that. For the first time Nefley realised that he was in actual, physical danger, and it scared him. He wondered what would happen if he refused to meet with Casimir after all. Suppose the vampire became angry and tried to track him down regardless? Suppose Casimir was a computer expert?

Faced with this awful possibility, Nefley devised a ‘honey-trap’. This he did after consulting one of his geeky Internet contacts, who probably took it for granted that they were both engaged in an online role-playing scenario.

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