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The Subject of Vampires
"Alright, folks, we are moving on to vampires." Said Ken. "In a mass grave north of Venice—"
"Venice, Italy?" interrupted Debbie.
"No Venice, Alberta. Yes Venice, Italy!" Ken sighed. "Look, please just don't interrupt. In a mass grave north of Venice in the March of 2009, I encountered a vampire. Yes, I. Just don't call me Kenny the Vampire Slayer. I did kill it, not with a stake though. I thrust brick into its mouth. Lying. My older brother Pierre did. He is attending university in Outer Mongolia right now."
"What did it look like? Was it like Vlad the Impaler or something from…" Heidi couldn't even finish the sentence.
"No! No! It was nothing like what Meyer would create!" Ken swallowed. "It looked like a cross between a vampire bat and a gorilla. And no, it did not have wings. Pretty much matches what we saw on the security video. It can't talk, can't shape-shift, no powers… It is like a living heat-seeking missile. My dad encountered one in Montreal, Canada in 1972. He got it with a stake. Pierre and I were in Ontario in 2006 when we first encountered a vampire. Took its head off with a machete. My great-great-grandpa encountered one and staked it while it slept. They really much more common than cave demons and sunlight does nothing to them. That is an invention of the movies." Ken took a breath. "That is all I've got about vampires."
"What was that about them being more common than cave demons?" asked Heidi.
"Vampires are less dangerous than cave demons and cave demons are less dangerous than strigoi therefore the more dangerous something is the less common it is."
"What's a strigoi?" asked Debbie.
"Oh, simply one of the three kinds of vampires that is the only one that looks human and that has powers." Ken's took a breath. "From what my dad says cave demons are capable of speech. So at the top we've got something that looks completely human with powers, in the middle we've got some humanoid bat monsters that can speak the tongues of humanity and at the bottom we've got some horrid cross between vampire bat and gorilla than is basically a living heat-seeking missile." That was quite the way to sum it up.
"Well, at least we've got the one at the bottom." Said Heidi. "Should be easy to find just need to look for… There are no mass graves in Norrisville."
"But the one in Ontario was in Casa Loma, which is a castle turned mansion." Stated Ken. "Which means the vampire could be anywhere in Norrisville."