I went upstairs and waited for Paul's arrival. I heard his motorcycle five minutes before I saw it. He smiled at me as if he had had no doubt in the world that his plan would be a success.

We returned to the lower level arm-in-arm. It wasn't long afterwards that the room began to fill with several vampires, very old vampires.

The atmosphere seemed to change with their arrival. It was as if they filled the world with too much other-worldly matter, as if they brought a ...