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"I do not want trouble" Stanislav sidled closer to Phineas
The young black Va,to kill me"
"I did not want to," Stan grumbled "Jedrek said I must kill youor he will kill me But he is dead now Everyone who heard the order is dead So I do not feel that I must kill you now"
Phineas scoffed "That's real sporting of you"
Stan glanced warily at Robby "I did not like what Casimir did to you - "
"But ye stood there and watched," Robby growled "Ye helped tie me to the chair with silver chains Did ye enjoy the s flesh?"
Stan's jaw shifted "Nyet But I tell you this If they catch s to me that make your torture look likewalk in the park Instead of thirty pieces of silver, they will take thirty pieces of flesh froue"
"Then let ed toward the stairs, but ran into Angus's outstretched arm
"Enough, lad," Angus hissed softly He turned toward the Russian "Are ye thinking of betraying yer master?"
"If you mean Casimir, I never met him till he came here to America and said he was our leader I am not killer I never was I wasfarmer I stayed with Russian vampires because I am Russian, and they helped me learn how to live here"
"And ye learned how to kill rumbled
"I never killed," Stan insisted "I feed from mortals, that is true But I never kill mortals"
Zoltan snorted "He expects us to believe that?"
Stan stiffened "You are one to talk You killed my best friend at the Battle at DVN I lost another friend in South Dakota You Vamps act like you arebetter "
Phineas cocked his head with a gri their ass"
Angus shrugged "They're bloody fiends They deserve to die"
"Then I can kill him now?" Robby muttered
Angus ignored him "Ye have two minutes, Stan Talk"
"And then I can kill him?" Robby asked a bit louder
Angus shot him an annoyed look
"I caan "Me and three vampire friends from Moscow We wantednew life with no tyranny and no terror We went to coven in Brooklyn so we could learn English We hoped to get jobs someday and our own place - "
"The Aetting choked up"
Stan scowled at him "But all we found was more tyranny Ivan Petrovsky liked to capture mortal women for food and sex If we did not follow orders, he would kill thelad when Katya and Galina murdered him"
"So you just fell in with the wrong crowd" Phineas rolled his eyes "Where have I heard that one before?"
"My friends and I, we hated following orders from the ones you call Malcontents, but we knee try to escape, they would kill us I lost two friends in battle And last night - " Stan glanced away, his eyes watering "My last friend died Nadia killed him because he was blond"
Phineas winced "Tough break"