"I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."
Cherie PriestDid you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?"
"No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.
Stichwörter: preparedness drag-queen
He was carrying bulky loot; I could see it under his zipped-up sweater. And when I unzipped it with a one-handed rip, I saw that he was wearing a bandolier loaded with grenades. I have no doubt that a wide, manic smile spread across my pretty little face.
Cherie PriestStichwörter: grenades
Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.
Cherie PriestStichwörter: guinness
For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it." Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.
Cherie PriestStichwörter: metaphors
But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It came from the spot in my skull that feels the burning need to unravel puzzles, finish crosswords, indulge in Internet games, and read all the mystery books I can get my grubby little paws on. Like it or not, need it or not, and want it or not, I can't leave a good mystery alone.
Cherie PriestStichwörter: puzzles compulsion solving-mysteries
You see, sometimes when you work by yourself in a field such as ours, it helps to share knowledge among professionals. I'm not saying that we watch one another's back or anything, because we don't. It's more of a back-scratching than a back-watching affair, as in, "You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." Officially, none of us has ever heard of any of us.
Cherie PriestStichwörter: plausible-deniability
They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?
Cherie PriestStichwörter: vampire-army
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