The Return: Midnight Chapter 32

Damon doesnt mean to be such a a bastard,Bonnie verbalise explosively. Hes scarce so often he feels alike its the three of us against him and and Well, who started that? Even back riding the thurgs,Stefan state.I see, alone when theres something else,Bonnie verbalize humbly.Since its but snow and rock and ice hes I dont subsist.Hes al tight. Somethings wrong.Hes hungry,Elena verbalise, stricken by a sud den realization.Since the thurgs there had been nothing for the two vampires to hunt. They couldnt exist, like foxes, on insects and mice.Of course Lady Ulma had provided plenty of Black Magic for them, the only thing that even resembled a substitute for blood. only when their supply was dwindling, and of course, they had to hypothesise of the trip back, as well .Suddenly Elena knew what would do her good.Stefan,she murmured, pul ing him into a quoin in the craggy st wiz of the cave entrance. She pushed off her hood and unrol ed her scarf enough to expose one side of her neck.Dont make me verbalize pleasetoo many times,she whispered to him. I cant wait that long.Stefan looked into her eyes, saw that she was serious and set and kissed one of her mittened hands.Its been long enough now, I think no, Im sure, or I would never even attempt this,he whispered. Elena tipped her base on balls back. Stefan stood amongst her and the wind and she was almost warm. She felt the little initial pain and so Stefan was drinking and their minds slid to draw and quarterher like two raindrops on a candy window.He took very little blood. Just enough to make the diversion in his eyes among Stillgreen pools and sparkling, effervescent streams. nevertheless wherefore his glance went Stillagain. Damonhe said, and paused awkwardly.What could Elena say? I unspoiled severed al ties with him? They were vatical to attend one another along these trials to show their wit and courage. If she refused, would she locomote again?Send him quick then,she said. Befo re I change my mind. basketball team daintys later Elena was again tucked into the little nook, while Damon dark her head back and forth with dispassionate precision, then suddenly darted before and sank his fangs into a prominent vein. Elena felt her eyes go wide.A sunburn that hurt this much Well, she hadnt experienced it since the days when she had been stupid and unprepared and had fought with al her strength to get free.As for Damons mind there was a brace wal . Since she had to do this, she had been hoping to see the little boy who harpd in Damons inmost soul, the one who was the unwil ing Watch-Keeper over al of his secrets, but she couldnt even thaw the steel a little.After a minute or two, Stefan pul ed Damon off of her not gently. Damon came away sul enly, wiping his mouth.Are you okay?Bonnie asked in a dysphoric whisper, as Elena rummaged through Lady Ulmas medicine box for a plot of gauze to staunch the unhealed wounds in her neck.Ive been better,Elena said br iefly, as she enwrapped up her scarf again.Bonnie sighed. Meredith is the one who real y belongs here,she said.Yes, but Meredith real y belongs in Fel s Church, too. I only look forward to they can hold on long enough for us to tote up back.I only hope that we can come back with something that wil encourage them,Bonnie whispered.Meredith and two-dimensionality spent the time from 200 A.M. to dawn displace infinitesimal drops from Misaos star bal onto the streets of the t receive, and asking the Power to somehow help them in the fight against Shinichi. This brisk movement from place to place had also netted a surprising bonus kids.Not crazy kids. Normal ones, terrorize of their brothers and sisters or of their parents, not daring to go home because of the awful things they had seen there. Meredith and level had crammed them into lusterlessnesss mothers second-hand SUV and brought them to Matts house.In the end, they had more than thirty kids, from ages five to sixteen, al too panicky to play, or gibber, or even to ask for anything. But theyd eaten everything Mrs. Flowers could find that wasnt bollix in Matts refrigerator and pantry, and from the pantries of the deserted houses on each side of the Honeycutts.Matt, honoring a ten-year-old girl cramming plain white bread into her mouth with raptorial hunger, tears running piling her grimy face as she chewed and swal owed, said quietly to Meredith, Think weve got any ringers in here?Id bet my flavor on it,she replied just as quietly. But what are we going to do? Cole doesnt know anything helpful. Wel just have to beseech that the un-possessed kids wil be adequate to help us when Shinichis ringers attack. I think the best option when confronted by possessed kids who may have weapons is to run.Meredith nodded absently, but Matt noticed she took the staff everywhere with her now. Ive devised a little test for them. Im going to smack every one with a Post-It, and see what happens. Kids whove done things they regret may get hysterical, kids whore already just terrified may get some comfort, and the ringers wil either attack or run.This I have to see.Merediths test lured out only two ringers in the whole mob, a thirteen-year-old boy and a fifteen-year-old girl. apiece of them screamed and darted through the house, shrieking wildly.Matt couldnt stop them. When it was al over and the older kids were comforting the younger ones, Matt and Meredith finished boarding up the windows and pasting amulets between the boards. They spent the evening scouting for food, questioning the kids about Shinichi and the Last Midnight, and back up Mrs. Flowers treat injuries. They tried to contain one person on rubber at alltimes, but since they had been up and moving since 130 A.M., they were al very tired.At a quarter to eleven Meredith came to Matt, who was cleaning the scratches of a yel ow-haired eight-year-old.Okay,she said quietly, Im going to nominate my car and get the new amulets Mr s. Saitou said shed have done by now. Do you mind if I take Saber?Matt shook his head. No, Il do it. I know the Saitous better, anyway.Meredith gave what, in a less refined person, might have been cal ed a snort. I know them well enough to say, excuse me, Inari-Obaasan excuse me, Orime-san were the troublemakers who keep asking for huge amounts of anti-evil amulets, but you dont mind that, do you?Matt smiled faintly, let the eight-year-old go, and said, Well, they might mind it less if you got their label straight.Obaasanmeans grandma,right?Yes, of course.And sanis just a thingy you say at the end of a name to be polite.Meredith nodded, adding, And a thingy at the endis cal ed an honorific suffix.Yeah, yeah, but for al your big words youve got their names wrong. Its Orime-grandma and Orime-Isobels-mother. So Orime-Obaasan and Orime-san, too.Meredith sighed. Look, Matt, Bonnie and I met them first.Grandma introduced herself as Inari. Now I know shes a little wacky, but she would ce rtainly know her own name, right?And she introduced herself to me and said not just that she was named Orime, but that her daughter was named after(prenominal) her. Talk your way out of that one.Matt, shal I get my notebook? Its in the boardinghouse den Matt gave a short sharp joke almost a sob. He looked to make sure Mrs. Flowers wasnt around and then hissed, Its somewhere down at the center of the earth, maybe. There is no den anymore.For a moment Meredith looked simply shocked, but then she frowned. Matt glared darkly. It didnt help to think that they were the two most unlikely of their group to quarrel. Here they were, and Matt could practical y see the sparks flying. All right,Meredith said final y, Il just go over there and ask for Orime-Obaasan, and then tel them it was al your smirch when they laugh.Matt shook his head. Nobodys going to laugh, because youre going to get it right that way.Look, Matt,Meredith said, Ive been development so much on the Internet that I even know the name Inari. Ive come across it somewhere. And Im sure I would have makemade the connectionHer example trailed off. When Matt turned his eyes down from the ceiling, he started. Merediths face was white and she was breathing quickly.Inarishe whispered. I do know that name, butSuddenly she grabbed Matts wrist so hard that it hurt.Matt, is your computer dead dead?It went when the electricity went. By now even the generator is gone.But you have a mobile that connects to the Internet, right?The urgency in her voice made Matt, in turn, take her seriously. Sure,he said. But the batterys been kaput for at least a day. Without electricity I cant recharge it. And my mom took hers. She cant live without it. Stefan and Elena mustve left their stuff at the boardinghouse He shook his head at Merediths hopeful expression and whispered, Or, should I say, where the boardinghouse used to be.But we have to find a mobile or computer that whole shebang We have to I need it to work for just a minuteMeredith said frantical y, breaking away from him and beginning to pace as if try to beat some world record.Matt was staring at her in bewilderment. But why?Because we have to. I need it, even just for a minuteMatt could only gaze at her, perplexed. last y he said, I guess we can ask the kids.The kids peerless of them has got to have a live mobile Come on, Matt, we have to talk to them right now.She stopped and said, rather huskily, I pray that youre right and Im wrong.Huh?Matt had no idea what was going on.I said I pray that Im wrong You pray, too, Matt please