Sixteen
Jonas' neighbourhood wasn't any more welcoming this time I was visiting than before. Maybe it was even worse now I knew he'd actually done some tampering with the watch. Or maybe the Captain had. It was hard to tell who was to blame for that one. Whatever the truth was, things were getting more complicated by the second.
But I was going to get to the bottom of this.
I pressed the buzzer to be let up into Jonas' flat.
"Who is it?" his brusk voice answered.
"Lucy Corentine, vampire for hire," I chirped back. Apparently, when faced with certain danger, my brain wanted to be happier and more upbeat than ever before.
The door beeped, letting me through. I rushed up the stairs, glad my vampire stamina meant I wouldn't be out of breath, I doubted that would have been a good look.
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