When he returned to the main chamber—the coat over his arm a statement of intention—the door to the corridor stood open and skeins of human heat were drifting in. Miles above, she saw a tear in the whiteness and beyond it a black sky blazing with huge stars. Nothing, Charlotte, he said. Dr Neville gave Karl a shrewd look, amused but sharp.
Karl loved to watch Charlotte's myriad reactions as she rediscovered the realm of mortals with vampire perceptions; a delight Ilona had denied him. She had wandered into an area that she would never before have dreamed of entering, let alone on her own at night. But perhaps it will help you to understand the difficulty of destroying my kind. Mein Gott, he breathed.
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