Ch. 18. Duquieu wheels a cart of blood bottles down to the basement of the mansion (called the "pool room" because it contains a large empty swimming pool) in order to feed the starving Gilda. We learn she was once a mortal woman, and that Duquieu's father "warned him not to take a normal woman as a bride." As he is reminiscing about their early days, Gilda bolts out the door and escapes.
Ch. 19. Jared wakes up in a full-blown vampire rage. He breaks the chains with which Clint has bound him and exits the church.
Ch. 20. Duquieu stalks Portia from outside Sugie's cabin. Clint appears and tells him no. Duquieu mockingly claims droit du seigneur and scoffs at Clint's "war training." They fight; Clint surprises the old man with some unexpected moves but soon Duquieu has Clint on his back. As he leaves, Duquieu warns his son to be en garde.
Ch. 21. The next morning, Portia tries to convince Clint and Sugie to let her stay in Blood. Ugly-looking villager July West shows up and is told to escort her out of town. Sugie announces that he's the new milkman and asks Clint for a contribution; obviously he doesn't know yet that Clint has turned. ["Turned" is my post-Near Dark shorthand for vampire transformation, by the way: Piserchia never uses the word that way.] Clint says he's too "feverish" to give blood and Sugie leaves to "shop for Duquieu's dinner." Soon after, Coley arrives with the news that her father, Marsh Nagl, is a Lamprou. They find him sleeping under his house and he shrinks from the light and "mews like a cat." Clint promises he'll prepare the old man for burial after he's made "one more mark" on the body.
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Ch. 18. Duquieu wheels a cart of blood bottles down to the basement of the mansion (called the "pool room" because it contains a large empty swimming pool) in order to feed the starving Gilda. We learn she was once a mortal woman, and that Duquieu's father "warned him not to take a normal woman as a bride." As he is reminiscing about their early days, Gilda bolts out the door and escapes.
Ch. 19. Jared wakes up in a full-blown vampire rage. He breaks the chains with which Clint has bound him and exits the church.
Ch. 20. Duquieu stalks Portia from outside Sugie's cabin. Clint appears and tells him no. Duquieu mockingly claims droit du seigneur and scoffs at Clint's "war training." They fight; Clint surprises the old man with some unexpected moves but soon Duquieu has Clint on his back. As he leaves, Duquieu warns his son to be en garde.
Ch. 21. The next morning, Portia tries to convince Clint and Sugie to let her stay in Blood. Ugly-looking villager July West shows up and is told to escort her out of town. Sugie announces that he's the new milkman and asks Clint for a contribution; obviously he doesn't know yet that Clint has turned. ["Turned" is my post-Near Dark shorthand for vampire transformation, by the way: Piserchia never uses the word that way.] Clint says he's too "feverish" to give blood and Sugie leaves to "shop for Duquieu's dinner." Soon after, Coley arrives with the news that her father, Marsh Nagl, is a Lamprou. They find him sleeping under his house and he shrinks from the light and "mews like a cat." Clint promises he'll prepare the old man for burial after he's made "one more mark" on the body.
- tom moody 5-06-2002 9:10 am