Night six "No" part II
"Eva, I
am glad you are still with me, but I have to ask you to do something
very hard. Go and get me an axe and the two benches from the
front room." She goes. You begin dragging one of the
bodies to the tub on the back porch. You get a second body
there when she joins you with an axe and the benches.
You cut the legs off at an angle and quickly make eight stakes.
You drag one body into the tub. You set a stake against its
heart and strike it with the back of the axe. This will
permenantly kill them. A lot of blood flows into the tub.
You have to do this over and over. Eva watches numbly.
When you get to one of the bodies Eva takes the stake from your
hand. She drives it into his heart herself. The tub is
half full of dark blood. The two of you are very messy
looking. "Go get the shovels" you order. You go
and get a cart you saw.
After loading
the bodies and the shovels the two of you pull the bodies to the
grave yard. It is going to be a long night. Sweaty, blood
smeared, and silent. Not a word. The graves are dug.
The two of you are exhausted. They have all been buried, and
rites spoken over the site. "Now, one more thing,"
you say. "We have to dig up Father Thais."
This takes even more time. It takes even longer to uncover the
body without damaging it. It looks the same kind of shriveled
it did before, though the hair is a little longer. You throw
his dirt covered corpse on the cart. The two of you pull him to
the back porch. Once there you get some cord and bind his hands
behind his back, and his feet together. This isn't easy.
The body is stiff. Now the body is put into the tub of blood.
Eva seems to get some idea of what you
are doing. She looks at you questioningly. In answer to
her unspoken question you say "I need some answers."
The sky brightens with day break.
[get eighty experience for putting to rest, permanently, eight vampires.]