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excellent for night hunting.  Day hunting is a bit harder because of glare from the sun.”
    “Do they have the same capabilities and weaknesses?”
    “I’m sure they do.”
    “I’ll keep that in mind.  I also heard that your appetite is incredible now.”
    “Yeah, I eat a lot.  Table manners gone to shit but it does the job.”
    “Okay.  I’ve set you up with high calorie MRE’s.  They taste like ass but they should provide you with the calorie intake the Veil of the Five Daggers say are required per day.  There are over a hundred in that bag.  There is also a Camelbak in the backpack filled with water.  The nozzle you drink out of and the part exiting the pack are filters in case you have to use improvised sources.”
    “Thank you Simon.  I promise, I won’t let you down.”
    “You better not.  All of our lives are in your hands right now.”
    “What pressure?”
    “None at all.”
    “Of course not.”
    “Did you talk to your brother?”
    “Yeah.”  Giselle paused for a bit.  “I did, he…”
    “He’ll understand.”  Simon interrupted.
    “He’ll drink again.”
    “You can’t change that.”
    “I did once.”
    “Then change is possible when he’s ready.”
    “I failed him.”
    “We’ve talked about this Giselle.  You did the best that you could have done given the situation.” 
    “I could do better now, now that I’m one of them.”  Giselle admitted while pointing out the window down at the Azrael roaming the streets.
    “You’ll never be one of them.  That’s your one perk in all of this.  Even if you fail, which you won’t, you won’t turn into one of them.  I have nightmares at least once a week about becoming one of those monsters down there, turning into a killing machine attacking the people I love.  It haunts my thoughts all the time.”
    “Don’t worry about what hasn’t happened.”
    “Take your own advice and kick ass down there.  What’s done is done.  The only thing you have control over now is what is happening in the present.  Live there Giselle.”
    “I will Simon.”
    “Take care of yourself and keep in contact.  Take this radio and Sat Phone too.  The radio will communicate with the snipers on the rooftops. The Sat Phone, well…use it when you need it.  I’ll have someone deliver it to you downstairs.”  Simon called in his secretary and hands a bag that has the radio and Sat Phone to her.  He gestured to the bag of MRE’s and placed them on a little cart.  She left pushing it out of his office while carrying the bag over her shoulder.
    “Thanks Simon.  Wish I were there so I could hug you.”
    “Me too Giselle, me too.”
    “Bye Simon.”  Giselle blew a kiss to him and ended the video feed.  The screen went black and the glare from the lights behind Simon replaced Giselle’s face. 
    Simon knew Giselle’s plan would work and sat at his desk at the remote office in the center of the city.  It was a floor above his condo suite.  He watched the chaos below and wondered if the world would ever get back to normal again.

Chapter 5
Janie’s gotta run
     
    Dr. Jane Barnett awoke from her exhaustion collapse fourteen hours later.  The room was still dark and alarms were sounding off in the distance muffled behind the walls of the Museum.  A red light was blinking every second illuminating the room and then hiding it again.  She listened for sounds of movement and heard nothing.  The aroma of blood, fecal matter and piss was in the air and she was comforted to find that it wasn’t her own.  She stood up and slipped a bit from blood on the floor that was progressively coagulating.  Her shoulder and head was bruised from the door striking it earlier but all in all she was ok.  She wasn’t bitten and it seemed the Azrael blood that covered her face and hair masked her human aroma.  She started to wipe it off the moment she remembered that she had it all over her but then ceased just in case there were more inside the