CHAPTER SIXTEEN.
“I heard the ripper ghost will be participating in this year's Dance of the Dead,” I hear Kane, a guard and my supervisor, say as I'm bent over scrubbing the floor of the guillotine platform. There's been another execution this morning at the palace square, and this time it was a huge bulky man - a serial killer, and as obligated I'm cleaning it. “Some say he shouldn't be allowed, considering the terror he unleashed in the Kingdom of Nyxara.”
“I get goosebumps anytime I remember what he did,” another guard replies. There's an unlit stick of cigarette between his lips as he flips a lighter.
“I heard he's one of the fastest vampires alive. He can tear one's heart out within the blink of an eye. He also hunted down some of our kind,” a third one, a bald man, adds. “I bet h
