The Eye of the Moon (55 page)

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Which is actually the introduction to Richard Strauss’s tone poem
Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Sanchez didn’t know that, though. He wouldn’t have given a shit, either.

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It is a curiosity of vampire physiology that their corpses do not always decompose in the same way. After the slaughter in the Nightjar, some remains smoked and flamed briefly before being reduced to ashes; others deliquesced, stinking horribly, melted and seeped through the floorboards; still others simply lay where they had fallen, awaiting the course of natural decomposition.

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Very, very deep indeed.