"And then I had a fire running through my body, and another through my mind. I was learning things, learning before I knew what I was learning. It was coming into my brain but I could not process any of it"
"In my parlance, you were getting an info-dump" Wendy said.'
"Yes, I think that that would be it. I was learning what I was – a vampire – and what it meant. And then I flew… I did not even realize that I had turned into a bat. I just flew and came to the docks looking for an exposed throat…. And then I felt the fury rise in me. Kisasi's fury. I was to be his instrument'
"My first victim was a man. Lot of more men out at night that women. I approached him and he did not think much of it. I knew that I could hypnotize him, and make him helpless. And when I approached him, he knew fear…"
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"Yes. You should be afraid. You should despair. Nothing good will come for this." Amos bit the man, hard painfully. His victims should hurt. And as the blood filled his mouth, he entered the man's mind and made him weak and afraid…. Made him feel like a slave, like a chained captive in the boat hold. He dropped the whimpering man. "Now you know that you have done to my people."
Amos watched sickened, knowing what Kisasi wanted and knowing that he, Amos, would give it to him.
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"The worst part was the rage and the despair. It hit me and I did not realize that not all that anger and despair was ME. Kisasi ws in my mind and I could not tell where I ended and he began. It was all a continuous river of rage and despair….and I was to act on it."
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Amos felt himself be pulled in the direction of the caves as the dawn began creeping in. He had to find a place to hide….
Kisasi guided him to a cave where Silas Romney stood next to an opened coffin "I must" was all that Romney said.
Amos lied down and let unconsciousness claim him.
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"But I was not unconscious. Kisasi made me see what was happening…"
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Hepzibah berating Margaret because she would not say that Amos was committing adultery with Genevieve. Hepzibah striking Margaret for being unwilling to lie….
and
Porter talking to Jacob about disinheriting Amos "given the rumors" and discussing how Amos' portion would be divided among the other heirs, including Porter's wife "I certainly deserve something for the way I made the business fail" Porter said.
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"And then I woke up again and continued to terrorize the town. Men and women found gibbering and weeping with wounds on their throats and no explanation…"
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Jacob speaking harshly to Genevieve. "I thought you to be innocent but you are not." "I am being slandered." "Pray that it is true Genevieve."
ans
Reverent Moore shouting at the congregation "you see the terror that grips this town. This is the Papist's woman fault. We have to expel her from Benchleytown to spare us the wrath of the Lord"
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"Another night hunting another night of bringing terror. There was a woman at the dock. No better than she should be… I approached her and she ran in terror when she saw my face. She tripped and fell in the water, and drowned… her name was Tina Royce…. I remember it well because later…"
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"We must get rid of the Papist women!" Obadiah Moore thundered. "They brought this plague to town"
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"I also saw my parents sick with worry because I had disappeared. I saw my father, and it was as if I was seeing him for the first time…. I always thought him as weak because he did not stand up to Uncle Jacob. I saw him trying to keep things together to take care of Becky, to advocating for me to sparing my mother… trying to keep the peace between Jacob and Hepzibah… Hepzibah, she was a snake. A self-righteous snake."
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Hepzibah knew what she had to do. She approached Jimmy. "You do not like your new mother, don't you?'" she asked the child.
"She's not my mother. She never will be!"
"We can make her be gone. Just tell your father that you saw her kiss Amos" and she gave him details of a secret tryst to tell his father.
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"I knew this when I woke up and I raced to… to protect Genevieve… or to do anything… I got there as Jacob was beating her making her confess. She cried protesting her innocence and he kept hitting… I grabbed him, and started shouting at him, telling him all that I had kept silent over the years. I yelled and yelled, even after I had torn him apart spraying the walls with his blood….blood that drank greedily…. Then I turned to Genevieve tried to approach her…. And she ran screaming…I do not blame her… After what she had seen... She ran as I came after her trying to tell her that it was OK…and that's how he fell from the cliff…"