As they waited, Tabitha gingerly asked Carmelo what had happened with the nine other vampires.
He looked down towards the ground before looking back up at her with glazed eyes. "Dead, they're all dead," he nodded.
"But there's something else, isn't there? What aren't you telling me?"
"It was a trap. All that time we thought we were setting our own trap, when in fact it was the other way round. They were waiting for us. Sadly the battle culminated in some casualties, some of our own were killed, and many were injured. They've all been taken back to our caves to be healed."
Tabitha struggled to climb to her feet as she hobbled towards him, "And Rose? Is Rose all right?"
Carmelo took her hand in his, "She was injured... but she's a fighter that woman, I think she'll be all right."
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