Explosive Beginning

The door opens into a narrow hallway lined with numbered doors, and The Fledgling leads the way along. They go down a flight of stairs, take a turn left and do another, shorter flight before reaching the door that opens into a dark, filthy alley. "How much a shadow can you be?"

A gust of wind brings light rain against the two, and the vampire steps out carefully avoiding stomping on the pools of water. She moves gracefully, even with her shoulders loaded by the heavy backpack carrying the explosives.