The Vampire Council: Case File:1 Read Online Free PDF Page A

done, but the horror was for the fact he didn’t feel anything. Jeff was becoming scared of his own numbness to the situation and not the situation itself. He turns his head slightly to the right as he begins to speak to the young woman.
    ‘I’m sorry I never caught your name earlier.’ Jeff says through his blood soaked mouth.
    ‘Oh, well it’s not that important sir.’ The young woman lowers her head and begins to rub her left arm in nervousness. Jeff catches he doing this in the mirror, he becomes puzzled.
    ‘You didn’t call me sir earlier, you called all three of us by our names, why change now?’ Jeff now turns to face the woman. He scans her up and down and notices she has lost the sharp wittedness she had earlier on in the day when they first met. She hesitates for a moment and just looks into Jeff’s eyes.
    ‘I’m sorry for the way I acted earlier sir, I should’ve been more polite to you and the others. And I’m dreadfully sorry to have grabbed you like that and pulled you in here.’
    Jeff reaches out to hold her arm. Her eyes widen in shock before quickly becoming as black as night as she hisses at Jeff revealing her fangs. Jeff quickly pulls his arm back becoming even more puzzled. The young woman snaps back into a human, ‘I’m so very sorry sir!’ she shouts.
    ‘Please stop calling me sir, what’s up with you?’ Jeff now sounding more concerned.
    ‘I shouldn’t have acted the way I did to higher ranked vampires.’ The woman again looks deep into Jeff’s eyes.
    ‘I don’t understand, I thought I was the lowest ranking, I’m only a rookie. Surely there’s nothing lower than that.’ Jeff smiles to ease the tension between the two of them. The young woman takes that sign and lets out a deep breath relaxing her posture. She begins to speak more assertively.
    ‘That’s where you’re wrong sir.’
    Jeff interrupts whilst splashing water over his face as he begins to wash the blood from his face. ‘Please you don’t have to call me sir.’ He turns his head to look at the woman and gives her another reassuring smile. The young woman also cracks a slight smile and pipes up more. ‘Yes you’re right, you being a rookie does make you the lowest ranking vampire. But you also get vampires such as myself who doesn’t show up on the rank list.’
    Jeff grabs the dirty cloth hanging from a hook next to the sink and doesn’t think twice before rubbing it on his face because he believes nothing can be worse than what he had on his face originally. Finishes by drying his hands before throwing the cloth back on the hook and turning off the tap. He turns and faces the young woman.
    ‘I’m still uncertain what you’re talking about, how can you not be on the ranking? Surely every vampire is on the vampire ranking.’ Jeff lets out a slight laugh as he cannot grasp this concept the woman is telling him. She quickly cuts that laugh, ‘I wasn’t worth as much as you.’ She spurts out taking Jeff unawares. Jeff composes himself and realises what this young woman has just told him.
    ‘Don’t say that, I can’t believe that.’ Jeff is shocked.
    ‘It’s true. I don’t know exactly how people get chosen but once you are chosen you get given one of two types of job.’ The woman explains.
    ‘And let me guess mines different to yours.’ Jeff chimes in.
    ‘Well obviously, I hand out the mission phones, you use the mission phones.’
    ‘Well now you point it out like that I guess you’re right.’ Jeff looks up at the light above their heads as he tries to imagine what more this woman will tell him.
    ‘Not only that. Depending on what job you’re given, between the warrior and the lackey. You only get given certain vampire powers, which is why warriors like yourself are instantly better than us lackeys.’
    Jeff lowers his eye line back to the woman’s eyes. ‘What do you mean certain powers?’
    ‘Well unlike yourself thankfully I don’t get as a powerful thirst for blood like you