Chapter Eighteen: Discovering the Creature

Before leaving the alley, Mark wanted to continue checking the entire crime scene, so they went up to the roof where the last vampire had been killed and began to check the surroundings. Except for the figure drawn in chalk on the floor, nothing seemed out of place. The building did not have many things there on the roof and the access booth to the internal stairs did not seem forced, so his suspicions that the murderer and the victim had gone up the emergency stairs were confirmed. Mark walked to the edge and looked at the alley and the building in front; this one was higher than where they were, by at least five or six stories, and he detailed the windows that gave access to his emergency stairway. One of the windows was closed but the curtains were open on both sides of it, Mark took a closer look, trying to see inside, and from what little he could see he realized that it was possibly a baby's room, with the walls painted blue, a wooden crib and in front of it a wooden shelf wit