I'd tried to quit drinking. I was just the nameless girl who gave them an excuse. Perrin's voice floated down all those years, his scream turned distant by the fading. He hung up.
Some strange tension that I didn't quite understand seemed to flow away from him. There is nothing charming about a drunk, except maybe to another drunk. If he had just been some powerful vamp that tried to mind-fuck me, then I'd have taught him his lesson, and we'd have gone on about our investigation, but he was their master. We moved the bodies so that they would be found sooner.
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