The house looks deserted, which is weird. Where are the vampires? They aren"t normally so quiet. And oddly, they don"t normally like the dark. Well they do. But natural night. Sunlight burns them. But they don"t normally like their homes in darkness. There"s almost always candles about at the very least. Or there has been at just about every raid I"ve ever been on, and I"ve been doing this since I was fourteen. Huh. Ten years of vampire hunting. I wonder how many vampires I"ve ended in that time? Probably best not to think about it.
I approach the house slowly, looking around me. Just because I"m good, it doesn"t mean I have to act stupid, and checking for an ambush was definitely a good idea. In fact, it should be a prerequisite for just about any situation.
Seeing nothing, I hasten my
