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"So he’d notice so bodies on his front lawn?"

The wos at times "Exactly"

"So when he said ‘There’sto? More bodies? If Tulio doesn’t like va around and there are more bodies--maybe some that the police haven’t found but he has--why hasn’t he stopped them? It sounds like it would be characteristic of hiri ent observation "Yes, he would stop them If he knehere they were But I also noticed there was no strong vaht you said she was killed by a vampire"

"She was" He saw the entrance and stood back, letting their host becolanced at the dark, e to worry about the sun

"But you said--"

"There was vah the night Good, he wasn’t wasting time on power displays He hardly needed to; they were on his turf The vampire’s head popped up from the crease of hills where his ho to or away fro the day," Baojia said, nodding at Tulio and still holding on to Natalie’s hand

Natalie’s eyes widened in understanding "Left by hu va your woman Cirilda has some food made for her"

He climbed up the hill and then over to see a s, tucked into the sandstone rocks and partially obscured by a convenient stand ofinside

"Wow It’s like a dugout," Natalie said

"It is a dugout Earth varound"

"Well, that makes sense… inaset used to it"

Baojia ushered her over the hill, ducking inside before her out of caution It was a spacious room hollowed out of the sandstone hills, far cooler than the air outside Se suful woven clothes and pictures he suspected Tulio’s hueways led farther back in the hill, but the roo a cozy, welcoe wooden table with his woman, a Tarahumara Indian fro of so He motioned to the two chairs across from him as Cirilda moved back to the set you soesture from the vampire Since Baojia was a water vampire and could use any water as a weapon, an offer of it was a gesture of trust, so he nodded in thanks "I thank you, Tulio"

"No need to be formal What’s your human called?"