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or not, vampires are legal citizens with legal rights in this country.
That's just the way it is."

"Amy is seventeen, if that thing brings her over underage it's
murder and I will prosecute him for murder. If he kills my Amy, I will
see him dead."

"You know for certain that it is a he?"

"The bites were very, very high up on her thigh." She looked down
at her lap. "Her inner thigh."

I would have liked to have let the female vamp angle go, but I
couldn't because I was finally beginning to see what Ms.
Mackenzie wanted me to do, and why Jeremy Ruebens had sent
her to me. "You want me to find your daughter before she's got that
third bite, right?"

She nodded. "Mr. Ruebens seemed to think if anyone could find
her in time, it would be you."

Since Humans First had also tried to kill me during their great
cleansing of the city, Rueben's faith in me was a little odd.
Accurate probably, but odd. "How long has she been missing?"

"Since nine, a little after. She was taking a shower to get ready to
go out with friends tonight. We had an awful fight and she stormed
up to her room. I grounded her until she got over this crazy idea
about becoming a vampire."

"Then you went up to check on her and she was gone?" I made it a
question.

"Yes." She sat back in her chair, smoothing her skirt. It looked like
a nervous habit. "I called the friends she was supposed to be
going out with and they wouldn't talk to me on the phone, so I went
to her best friend's house in person and she talked to me." She
smoothed the skirt down again, hands touching her knees as if the
hose needed attention; everything looked in place to me. "They've
got fake ID that says they're both over twenty-one. They've been
going to the vampire clubs for weeks."

Ms. Mackenzie looked down at her lap, hands clasped tight. "My
daughter has bone cancer. To save her life they're going to take
her left leg from the knee down, next week. But this week she
started having pains in her other leg just like the pains that started
all this." She looked up then, and I expected tears, but her eyes
were empty, not just of tears, but of everything. It was as if the
horror of it all, the enormity of it, had drained her.