Chapter 149:- ...
I'm on the tiny circular skyscraper roof, where the city-wide clamor of battle is a distant rumble. Fires burn all over Vampiropolis. Many of the searchlights which illuminate the skyscrapers must have suffered damage, because now, loose on their moorings, they scan the night sky without purpose.
He stands facing me. It's like a cannibal tribe has delighted in taking deep bites from a rotting body, down to the bone in some places. His eyes convey how he'd like to do the same to me.