Patience and good aim and the ability to be quiet are all good things, but what separates an excellent hunter from a competent one is the ability to put yourself in your target’s place. For example, pretend you’re leading a vampire hive. Most of your members have been destroyed, and there are only a few of you left. Some burnout you don’t trust delivered your enemies into your hands because, he says, he wants them to suffer, but you tried to turn on him and kill him because, after all, where’s the advantage in having some backstabbing wack job running around knowing who and where you are? Only the wack job got away, and he took a sniper and the enemy you were most concerned about with him, back into the sunlight where you couldn’t follow. How secure are you going to feel? Not very. Now fast-forward a few hours. You’ve been stuck in your lair all day with a few human prisoners, and you’re planning on getting the hell out of there as soon as darkness falls. Maybe you’ll start making another lair somewhere else, or maybe you’ll try something different, or maybe you’ll concentrate on locating the blood bag who’s been causing you problems before you make any more long-term plans, but either way your first priority is going to be finding a new crib because you’re a planner, and the one thing that’s for sure is that you’re going to need shelter in twelve hours.
