"Davidson,.MaryJanice.-.Betsy.2.-.Dead.Girls.Don't.Dance" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davidson Mary Janice)

"It's creepy, is what it is. Creepy dead librarians keeping track of your whole
life, lurking here waiting for you to come backЕ yech!"
"It's a pretty logical system, actuallyЧwhat the hell?"
"What, what?"
She froze the screen. Under Affiliations, there was a single name: Sinclair.
"What's a Sinclair?"
"I have no idea. I don't affiliate with any vampires."
"Shit, you barely affiliate with me."
"I wish we could cross-reference my file with Sinclair's to find theЧwhoa." The
computer unfroze and started to do exactly that. In a few seconds, they were
staring at the screen, which read:
04/06/00. His Majesty King Sinclair, passing through Des Moines on business. See
transcript.
"Let's see it," she ordered.
Instantly a dark, slightly amused voice came out of the computer. "I was passing
through townЧthis was a couple of years before I became Elizabeth's consortЧand
back-trailed a young vampire. It was a chilly night; I thought she might need a
hand. She was very young; I doubt she knew her own name at the time. She was
afraid and wouldn't come with me. I made a few attempts and left her to her own
devices. See if her description matches anyone in your files: about five foot
six, shoulder-length brown hair, brown eyes, pale coloringЧhereditary, not as a
condition of being deadЧslender, no tattoos or birthmarks that I could see, but
she had a beauty mark high on her left cheek. Transmission ends."
"Holy shit," Daniel said, poking her beauty mark. "You met up with the king of
the dead guys!"
"I remember him, too," she said faintly. "I was too scared to talk to him. I'm
not surprised he's Elizabeth's consort. Still, it was nice of him to try to help
me."
Daniel snorted. "He barely tried and gave you up as a bad job quick enough."
"It's not really in a vampire's nature to help another vampire," she explained.
"For him, for what he was, he went above and beyond, believe me."
"Well, d'you want to look up more toothy dead guys, or finish what we came to
do?"
She was tempted to remain in the libraryЧto sleep in the library!Чbut Daniel was
right, they were just postponing the inevitable. She had no desire to look up
Elizabeth's fileЧfor one thing, it was probably forbidden, and for another, why
find out more information that was just going to scare her? And she had no wish
to look up Nostro's file, since he was dead and gone.
"Elizabeth must be a thousand years old," Andrea muttered. "Maybe more."
Daniel puffed out his chest. "Well, she's no match for the baby and the sheep,
tell you that right now."
Andrea had to smile. "Still got that map?"
"No, in the three minutes since Marjie gave it to me, I've managed to lose it.
Yes, I've got the damned map."
"All right, then. Let's go find the queen."



Chapter 11