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time."
    She lowered her head to his neck, brushing his jugular lightly with her lips. Judd squeezed his eyes shut in anticipation of the bite. But all she did was whisper: "Get used to it, lover boy."
    When he opened his eyes again, she was gone.
    The Other took a great deal of pleasure in telling Sonja what it had done to Judd, making sure not to leave out a single, tasty detail as it reran that morning's exploits inside her skull.
    Sonja's response to the news was to scream and run headfirst into the nearest wall, then to continue pounding her skull against the floorboards until her glasses shattered and blood streamed down her face and matted her hair. She succeeded in breaking her nose and fracturing both cheekbones before collapsing.
    "Girly-girl! Long time no see! What brings you into my little den of iniquity this time?"
    The demon Malfeis sported the exterior of a flabby white male in late middle age, dressed in a loud plaid polyester leisure suit with white buck loafers. A collection of gold medallions dangled under his chins and he held a racing form in one hand.
    Sonja slid into the booth opposite the demon. "I need magic, Mal."
    "Don't we all? Say, what's that with the face? You can reconstruct better than that...."
    She shrugged, one hand absently straying to her swollen left cheek. The bone squelched under her fingertips and slid slightly askew. Heavy-duty facial reconstruction required feeding in order for it to be done right, and she'd deliberately skipped her waking meal.
    "You tangle with an ogre? One of those vargr punks?"
    "Leave it be, Mal."
    Malfeis shrugged. "Just trying to be friendly, that's all. Now, what kind of magic are you in the market for?"
    "Binding and containment."
    The demon grunted and fished out a pocket calculator, his exterior flickering for a moment to reveal a hulking creature that resembled an orangutan with a boar's snout. "What kind of demon are you looking to lock down?"
    "I wish to have myself bound and contained."
    Malfeis glanced up from the calculator, a sour look on his face. "Are you shitting me or what, girlchick?"
    "Name your price, damn you."
    "Don't be redundant, girlchick."
    Sonja sighed and hefted a knapsack onto the tabletop. "I brought some of my finest acquisitions. I've got hair shaved from Ted Bundy's head just before he was to go to the chair, dried blood scraped from the walls of the LaBianco home, a spent rifle casing from the grassy knoll, and a cedar cigar box with what's left of Rasputin's penis in it. Quality shit. I swear by its authenticity. And it's all yours, if you do this one thing for me."
    Malfeis fidgeted, drumming his talons against the table. Such close proximity to so much human suffering and evil was bringing on a jones. "Okay, I'll do it. But I'm not going to take responsibility for anything that happens to you."
    "Did I ask you to?"
    "Are you sure about this, Sonja?"
    "Your concern touches me, Mal. It really does."

    Create PDF files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer ( http://www.novapdf.com ) The demon shook his head in disbelief. "You really mean to go through with this, don't you? Sonja, once you're in there, there's no way you'll be able to escape, unless someone on the outside breaks the seal."
    "Maybe."
    "There's no maybe to it!" he retorted.
    "The spell you're using is for the binding and containment of vampire energies, right?"
    "Of course. You're a vampire."
    She shrugged. "Part of me is. And I'm not letting it out to hurt anyone ever again. I'm going to kill it or die trying."
    "You're going to starve in there!"
    "That's the whole point. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll starve that side of myself to death, so that I can walk away clean and human."
    "Whatever you say, girly-girl. But if you ask me, you're out of your fucking mind."
    Sonja hugged herself as she stared into the open doorway of the meat locker. It was cold and dark inside, just like the Other's heart. "I'm not paying for your opinions, just your hoodoo. Let's