That didn\u2019t go as planned at all.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m staying put, minding my own business, hanging around one of the local elysiums. The one they put Summer in. Figure I might as well keep an eye on her while I\u2019m still around. I do that and wait for the prince\u2019s word.<\/p>\n
One of those nights I go out, hunting. A man\u2019s got to eat after all. So there I am, stalking, just the way I do – next thing I know that cocksucker Nosferatu turns up from nowhere, intending for bloody murder on my part!<\/p>\n
Fortunately there\u2019s still some fight in these old bones. Still, I\u2019m painfully aware that I got lucky, mostly. First strike wasn\u2019t as hard as it could have been. Had he chosen to do that, I\u2019d be history by now. Gotta beef up my resilience some. Can\u2019t have folks chewing on my neck and having some gain from it.<\/p>\n
On him I find a little trinket. I\u2019ll be damned for still feeling I need to stick to my word. Prince tells me it\u2019s supposed to be some key – which she took under her wing for me, bless her soul. Pah! Either way. There\u2019s no point in arguing with the blue bloods, so that\u2019s just the way it is now. She\u2019ll give it back once we know it\u2019s safe. I\u2019m guessing \u201cwe\u201d means \u201cher\u201d. She ain\u2019t one to trust anyone\u2019s word much just by hearing it.<\/p>\n
Does mean I\u2019m no longer out of a job. With her Scourge down and no Sheriff around to keep her peace, I\u2019m hired as the first and pretty much the only guy to perform as the latter, if for lack of a name to it. Service for a year and a day, she calls it.<\/p>\n
Old Keene going steady. But one thing\u2019s for sure: If she\u2019s one to not keep up her end of the bargain, she ain\u2019t getting off as easy as the last idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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