| Ch. 35. At Clint's request, Portia takes her bow and arrows with her as she travels around Blood. "No one bothered her, not the ordinary folks and not the mutants who could be recognized by their pale skin, dark-ringed eyes and their way of slinking about so furtively and in so distressing a manner. That was what she called them: mutants." Portia theorizes (to Sugie, with whom she's developed an affectionate sparring relationship) that they're the result of incest, but she still wonders where Duquieu's body went. Sugie asks her why she didn't cry about his death. She says "He had it coming. I guess he never heard of women's lib, otherwise he might not have tried such a thing with me." Smart and tough as she is, though, Portia is awfully thick when it comes to figuring out Blood's secrets.
Ch. 36. Sweck Brewster, in a drunken stupor, hitches a ride on a wagon. The driver (Sam Steiner?) takes him up to the mansion. Jared locks him in the poolroom for the night with Charlie, who sucks blood from his legs whenever he tries to sleep. At the end of the chapter Sweck is fading.
Ch. 37. The garlic-eating Widow Witt comes down from the mountain to tell Clint (who is trying not to breathe) that six of the Ricco kids have been turned into Lamprous. "Their two little brothers," however, "never woke up after their grandpap dreened their veins. Them two stayed dead." She also mentions that Sam Steiner is sleeping in her chicken coop. Clint advises her to "sprinkle that garlic with a flair" and she returns home. Clint walks up to the mansion and using a heavy club, tames Baron by beating him severely. When he returns to the cabin, Sugie tells him that "our lady from up north is in more trouble." Someone placed Sweck Brewster's body behind Portia's archery target and one of her arrows pierced his heart.
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Ch. 36. Sweck Brewster, in a drunken stupor, hitches a ride on a wagon. The driver (Sam Steiner?) takes him up to the mansion. Jared locks him in the poolroom for the night with Charlie, who sucks blood from his legs whenever he tries to sleep. At the end of the chapter Sweck is fading.
Ch. 37. The garlic-eating Widow Witt comes down from the mountain to tell Clint (who is trying not to breathe) that six of the Ricco kids have been turned into Lamprous. "Their two little brothers," however, "never woke up after their grandpap dreened their veins. Them two stayed dead." She also mentions that Sam Steiner is sleeping in her chicken coop. Clint advises her to "sprinkle that garlic with a flair" and she returns home. Clint walks up to the mansion and using a heavy club, tames Baron by beating him severely. When he returns to the cabin, Sugie tells him that "our lady from up north is in more trouble." Someone placed Sweck Brewster's body behind Portia's archery target and one of her arrows pierced his heart.
- tom moody 5-22-2002 7:15 am