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Aidin Cooper stands at his window (yes, I guess something was amiss in issue 1 when
Aidin was called Aidin Coleen). "Bianca, she's in my dreams, my memories. I
know she wasn't there but when I try to remember, she's there." The pills Hue
gave him are almost gone. Suffolk Manoróósilver arrows, crystal tears. Bianca in
her new body tells herself Hue the Elder gave Aidin pills to combat her influence.
She wants Aidin not as food but as her lover. The same force that originally drew
Hue to this area also would attract other vampires, something out there, maybe in
the land itself, old and powerful. Perhaps the closeness of the Druid mounds. Hue
has a long knife or short sword with runes on it. He will try to help Aidin even
though it may kill them both. Across from Hue's house is a small figure, a bare boy
in the mist: the called him the Orphan Kid, the Wild Boy, the Crazy One, the Gypsy
Boy. His master called him Robin Goodfellow, Puck, and other names. The Ancient Boy
knew about the Dark Ones. The Druids who fought them before. The Mounds still held
their bodies. Stones stood to thwart their magic yet still they came, drawn like
moths to a flame. Robin had done many things in his times and he knew what he would
do that night. The Walker forgot his name. It happened many centuries ago. For a
brief moment, he was a black haired curly haired boy again on a moonlit night sleeping.
Nights of mystery, excitement, exhausted sleep followed by bright, happy sunny days,
basking in the glow of youth. Long ago days before the vampire came. He was sad but
thankful to forget in his bottle. Old Freddie and his mate Johnny who wears sunglasses
and is a bit on the heavy side are with Bosha, the girl at Suffolk Manor where she
has lead them. They seem to want to rape (or wank) Bosha near the haunted Manor but
she fights them ("Nothin' like Old Doc Martins in the nuts, right boys?")
with skills she tells them she learned about 200 years ago in China. Freddie with
a bald head pulls a knife out, "I learned this in Hamstead Heath!" He cuts
her but she turns into monster form, 2 fanged teeth coming far out and her eyes turning
pupilóless. He jumps back and she jumps him over a fence and down a hill, bites his
neck and kills him. Inside, as Bianca eats a bloody heart, she realizes blood has
been spilled. Johnny hits Bosha away from the dead Freddie and picks up a shovel
but a hand grabs it before he can hit the girl. It is Bianca, calling him a bad boy
and ripping his arm off its socket and his body. She tells Bosha she is a friend.
She tells her to drink up and that she can help her tonight. Midnight: Hue slips
out his door watched by Robin, who smiles and seems to have his baby teeth and a
shiny coat to his smooth skin. Hue's thoughts were clouded as Aidin waited for him
and his help. The boy pulls a bow and arrow. He shoots it into Hue just below his
left shoulder, pinning him a wooden wall. "Hold still vampire, the next one
goes through your heart," the boy says and draws another one. Hue pulls himself
off the wall and the second arrow misses. Hue says, "Damn you, boy!" "Run
vampire. I'll track you down wherever you go. And kill you forever," the drivenboy
sneers. Aidin thinks Hue must think he is crazy. He laments that he even had Hue
in one of his dreams. He wants to stay awake until Hue gets here. "Hue won't
let me down." Aidin catches himself nodding off. Outside, Bianca waits. |