Chapter 38
“What do you want?” Father Harry asked, feeling strangely calm.
“I’m looking for a vampire named Terrill,” the creature said. “Tell me where he is and I’ll let these men go.”
“He isn’t here,” the priest said.
The vampire laughed. “Of course he isn’t here! He’s vampire! But some of the men here know where he is and have given him shelter. Tell me where he’s hiding and you can forget I ever existed.”
“A man named Terrill was here,” Father Harry said. “He entered this sanctuary. I fed him and he went on his way.”
“Come, now—such a stupid lie. He could no more cross the threshold of a church than I can.”
Father Harry didn’t know what to say. Should he play along or tell the truth? If he lied and said Terrill was inside, the vampire would be stymied. But then he might take his
