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They were worshippers at a black mass the city had demanded be staged; not once, but a thousandtimes a day in this insane asylum of steel and stone. If Jean-Claude would just let me shoot everyone in Musette's party tonight, it would save a lot of trouble. He'd done what he'd done in innocence; I couldn't return the favor, not deliberately. 12 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON

The skin felt thin as paper, dried, and brittle. Don't you need to put crosses on the coffins to keep vampires from using their powers? There's only one exit from each room, it's like a bigger coffin. It was to result in an experience I never want torelive, an experience that brought back my memories of the Barons so sharply I felt I had never leftBrooklyn. If you'd slept the day away like a normal pomme de sang or human servant, you wouldn't be sick at all.