We only had a couple of hours untilsunup. Since Carl was allergic to daylightnow, too, that meant we only had the darkness to help us out.
We managed to track Blade down, and hecame over. Aspen sat quietly on her couch while we talked strategy.Joel was on board with ammunition. He produced guns from somewhere,and I had the feeling that even Aspenhadn’t known about it. If she was angry she didn’t show it – Ifigured she would deal with Joel after we’dleft.
We were two and a half vampires goinginto this fight now, and we were going in there with guns blazing. Ihad my usual armor – my knife, my Smith & Wesson, my Beretta. Iwas banking on the chain as well to stop dematerialization fromhappening. And I had the Carbine that Joel had given me a year ago.The gun looked as scary as the punch it p
