To Become The Monster
“That’s the problem, isn’t it?”
She leaned back, folding her arms. “Because you can’t exactly walk up to a vampire and say, ‘Hi, please don’t kill me, but could you turn my friend?’ That gets us murdered in about five seconds.”
“Generous estimate,” I muttered.
I stood and moved toward the window, peering down at the street below. The evening crowd had thickened—vendors calling out, lanterns glowing brighter as dusk deepened, people brushing past one another without a care in the world. Somewhere among them, there could be vampires. Watching. Listening.