Open Palms Up

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Chapter Nine continues from yesterday:

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Muriel gestured with open palms up. “So – how did you do it?”

Velma grinned. “It was winter – hunting season – so it got dark early, during office hours in fact. So I became the mist and went in under the door.”

“Whaaat???” Andy was awe-struck. “You can do that? You can actually do that?”

“Do it now,” Muriel demanded excitedly. “Do it now!”

Velma became the mist, floated out the open window, turned mid-air and came back in. Then she went under the door to the kitchen and, a few seconds later, came back in through the living room window. It was good to hear her friends excited laughter as she changed back into her bipedal self.

“Can you see when you do that? And hear?” Andy asked.

“Of course she can see – she chose to go in and out the window!” Muriel told him. But then she wasn’t sure. “Didn’t you? You did that on purpose?”

Velma laughed. “Yes, I can see and hear and go where I want. I just can’t touch or affect anything.”

Andy pictured that day in 1985. “So you went into the building under the door, found the monster’s office – and then what? Turned back into yourself to drink his blood? What if someone else saw? Didn’t they have security cameras?”

“No they didn’t. Not inside. Not then. I just stayed close to the floor and moved around until I saw an office with his name on it. Then I went under the door and luckily he was alone in there. You can guess the rest.”

“Ha! I bet they cancelled the hunt that week!” Muriel gloated.

“For a couple of weeks,” Velma smiled.

“Okay but they will now,” Andy pointed out. “They’ll have CCTV in the building now. So how will you kill the Prime Minister without being seen?”

“I can’t.”

Muriel frowned. “You said you could.”

“I said I could get in, and I can. I just can’t kill him without being seen. But that’s okay, because I want to be seen. I want to be caught on camera.”

“Yes!” Andy banged on the table with the side of his fist and Sammy barked. “Of course! They won’t be able to deny a vampire exists if she’s caught on camera killing their boss!”

“On their cameras,” Muriel reminded him. “They have complete control of their closed circuit system. No one from the outside can see it and they’re not likely to share it. Who knows, they can probably just scrub the recordings if they want to. And then whoever’s next in line for his job will just go ahead with the research as planned.”

“Oh yeah, they will won’t they?” Andy was disappointed.

Velma smiled again. “Don’t worry, I’ve got a plan. It’ll work ….. I’m pretty sure.”

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Come back tomorrow to find out if her plan does work – Chapter ten begins tomorrow – unless you want to read it now 😀

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