She remembered reading Dracula long ago, back in high school, the pleasurable terror that had been quite a bit less pleasurable once she was in bed, the lights out, her room filled with shadows. How curiously human. Many of these were in flames. This one was very close.
That's what happens to people just before they flip out. Owen was looking toward the corral, which had once held horses and now held men. From the panic in Owen's voice, he had expected some sort of hemorrhage, but it was just a trickle from one nostril and a fine spray of blood from Duddits's mouth when he coughed. I'm hot, I'm tasty, and I'm waiting.
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