“The vampires jumped down from the wagons, dissolving into swift gray shadows in the dense roadside underbrush—this will be our silent support. Desmos and I, who carefully held me by the hand, moved slowly toward the bend of the road, from where I felt more and more strongly the swelling wave of human fear."
“We saw them off to the side: a little more than two dozen peasants with two wagons, harnessed to nondescript, dapple-gray horses. Here they stood, looking frightened at our approach—apparently several families, since there were children and women.”