Whilst she squashed the spent butt of the cigarette with her spoon to squeeze all of the tar out of it, a fluttering at the window caught her attention. At first she thought that some joker had hung a pair of curtains to the outside of the window, but she quickly realised that curtains, with the rare exception of the odd pair at the castle, didn't have eyes, ears and a mouth full of needle like teeth that could plunge into flesh as easy as if it were, well, flesh really. It is rather squidgy after all.
No. This was one of Jocular's vampire bats. They were huge, leathery blood fiends that were relentless in their pursuit of prey, famed for their brutality, and feared by all those that came into contact with them, especially when they made house calls. They were more terrifying than any Jeh
