Going to the grate that Luke told me led beneath ground, I stood and looked at it. I could see that the hatch had been fastened with a rusty-looking padlock. Was there really another world on the other side of it? A world thousands of years old where these Vampyrus lived in the utter darkness of caves and caverns? Stepping away, I saw something glint on the floor just beside the hatch. Bending down, I picked up something small and silver. Half expecting to find another small crucifix, the hairs on the nape of my neck stood on end as I looked at the tiny silver pair of metal wings in my hand. My skin flushed cold as I realised where I’d seen that little parachute regiment tiepin before. It had belonged to the old man that I’d met in the street the day before – the old man that now lay dead and mutilated beyond recognition in the field. But how had it ended up in the police station, just outside the hatch that I had been told led to The Hollows? It was then that I realised what it had been that had been missing when I’d examined the body – the tiepin.
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