Null said that was desirable, if Stake wanted the general population to know he was under the protection of the Muties.“The deaths started about four months ago,” Null said. “But we’re not really sure how many have died, because it’s not like the warden has announced what’s going on…we only know about it from witnesses.”“Witnesses? Have people actually seen some of the victims die?”“No, I mean cell mates waking up to find the victim already dead. Uh…but let me correct that. There are always killings in prison, but what links these deaths is you don’t find a body afterwards—just a whole lot of blood on the guy’s bed, the walls, even the ceiling. That’s why when this happens, the men will say, ‘The vampire got another one.’”“Vampire? A vampire would do the opposite—take the blood and leave the body. So the only real witness, then, is your guy Blur, and you can’t be sure if this ‘ghost’ or ‘skeleton’ he talks about is based on something he really saw.”“Right.”“But what about camera footage?
