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their arms as we walked out of the cell. My toes dragged the floor, as I continued to sell my perceived invalid state.
                  My ears perked up as I heard rumblings above. I heard a chorus of monotone chants in the distance, followed by a large blast.
    “ Sounds like tear gas,” stated Yi.
    “ Is there some kind of protest up there?” I asked, as we all proceeded down a large empty corridor.
    “ It’s a bunch of greedy monsters,” Yi reprimanded.
    “ Is protesting even allowed?” I asked.
    “ They had homes down by the river, which were all given up in exchange for some real nice apartments, so the government could build a new power plant.”
    Something about Yi’s explanation seemed rather forced. The inflection in his voice when he called them greedy monsters seemed more angry than annoyed. Moving me to a different location over some protest of displacement seemed too reactionary.
    We arrived at the same cavernous room where I was almost burned alive. The small conference room to the left had displayed a DNA chart on the whiteboard, technicians were still running around toiling with the servers right above us, the larger girders in the ceiling had lights that splashed tremendous amounts of light below, making my skin feel slight pricks. In the center, was the examination table with thick leather straps and pointy, metallic stirrups.
    Havens came over to where the guards and I were standing and grabbed one of my arms and twisted it behind my back. Even if I weren’t feigning weakness, I would have had a difficult time resisting his extraordinary strength. I ponied up a fake stumble as Havens led me from behind to the examination table in front of me. Alan assisted Havens as they put me on the table, both strapping me in as tightly as possible. One of the thick leather straps ran across my upper torso, another around my thighs. They cuffed my wrists and legs; they weren’t like the cuffs I had on before, which extended out from the table with metal links or twine, but they were built into the table, welded on, in fact.
    As soon as they were done, they swiveled the examination table upward. I faced another blinding light, which partially obscured the upper bodies and faces of the group, just the tails of their lab coats and the steel-toed boots from the guards were visible through the illuminant fog.
    “Day three of interviews with Jack King, American Vampire, subject number three,” Rebecca’s soft voice reverberated over the microphone. Her soft, silky voice continued through the amplification, “Mr. King, where can we find more of your kind?”
    “ I really don’t know,” I said.
    “ Are you bluffing once again, Mr. King?” asked Yi.
    “ No, I’m not. I’m being honest with you.”
    “ You don’t know your real name, you don’t know where you’re from, and now you tell me that you’ve never encountered another of your kind?” Yi asked, clearly flustered.
    “ I’ve assimilated successfully,” I said with a proud grin.
    The leather straps were bound tightly onto my body. It felt extremely uncomfortable being tied down. I tried wiggling just a little, but it was impossible.
    “Do you know where Ted is?” asked Rebecca.
    “ He’s in Singapore,” I said.
    “ Mr. King, I’ll give you one last chance to tell the truth,” Yi said. “We checked the flight records of that night, to this very hour, and he has not left Hong Kong, where is he?”
    “ I honestly don’t know.”
    “ You are either the most stupid vampire on the planet or the most stubborn.” said Yi. I could tell he was at wit’s end as his voice broke into a higher pitch. “I consider myself a sophisticated man. One who does his best to reason but you do not want to reason—Havens, bring in the gentleman.”
    Havens briefly stepped outside beyond the large metallic double doors, and grabbed a man who was being detained by the guards. He was bound with his hands behind his back. He had on a wrinkled