only way they would come back on the grid was for me to physically show up at their location and convince them to return. I was the key to unlocking the strikers, so had to know approximately where they were… and they had to know who I was.
❦ The rest of July 4th passes without incident — except for the increasingly frustrated and desperate calls of the dialysis clinics. Tuesday vampires start getting called… starting with the same shifttime and then going both earlier and later to whoever they have not called yet. Through all of this, our group refuses politely but sternly. The calls get more and more rushed and testy.
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