#forgiving-mind

Never opposed to walking, especially in cities where the maze was always far too entertaining, he hadn't bothered with the car since leaving it in the parking garage of the hotel. Adam was currently seated on the top of a low planter, dividing the outdoor dining from the sidewalk and street traffic. Just watching for the moment as people passed him. This city was an odd one and it lent itself easily to the aura of Halloween. Not quite the mask it put on during Mardi Gras, the air of ghosts and ghouls was far too authentic for such a trivial thing as milking cash from drunken tourists.

When he found what he was looking for, a man who's thoughts were hardly happy or playfully scary, he stood and crushed the cigarette out in the concrete planter, the butt disappearing into a steel cast pocket holder. It was both the polite thing to do, not littering and all, as well as a protective action. It wouldn't do for a cigarette butt with vampire dna on it to turn up at a murder scene.

Speaking of murder.

He was hardly subtle as he approached the man, simply walking up to him and throwing an arm around his shoulders. Despite the loud swearing and the shove he didn't let go. The ancient vampire loved to use the 'random drunk guy' act to get close to his prey. He leaned in and whispered the man's unwholesome thoughts back to him, promising him an experience to top even that rush.

Once they were off the main street, away from crowds, he drove a talloned hand into the human's side, curving around to take a solid hold of the man's ribs. The scream hardly bothered him, the desperate punches and kicks and scratches to his arms, the back of his suit coat, legs and face stopped as soon as the man saw those black orbs of eyes. Most of the generations old New Orleans natives knew well the truth of vampires even if they hadn't personally encountered one.

He dropped the body after using his victims shirt to clean the blood off his hand and from his face and turned to leave the narrow side street only stop. This person may not have seen the kill, at least he hopped they hadn't, or perhaps she had.

Things will be slow for me for the next two days or so. 

Until the external drive finishes the hard format (currently at just under 50% complete or so) I'm running on less than 8gb free Internal disk space.

So naturally, the internet is slow as balls.