I let him, because I was feeling fuzzy around the edges. He fell on his side, and I moved up on him, gun still held two-handed, because whether he was dead or whether he wasn't, I wasn't done. I've seen a lot of vamp kills, Zerbrowski, a lot. I looked up at the chains and just wasn't familiar enough with the concept to know, so I asked Jean-Claude, Does this swivel? It can, he said, why? Because they'll want to see his face.
But if you spend too much time in animal form sometimes you don't come all the way back. Nathaniel often made me feel out of my depth. It was a game, because we'd all agreed to this. Benchely didn't seem to notice.
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