Chapter 13“I’m not here," said an old woman's voice from behind the beaded curtain. "Come back some other time."
Stanza smiled and parted the beads with one hand. "We're here to talk to you, Mother Nothing," she said. "May we come in?"
"Absolutely not," said the old woman.
"I guess we'll just go away, then." Stanza pushed through the beads and nodded for Jonah and Mavis to follow.
When Jonah stepped inside, he was surprised. If he hadn't known better, he might have thought he was in an old lady's parlor in a house instead of a cave in the wall of the secret vampire city of Bluegiller, New Mexico.
By the light of candles and gas lamps, Jonah saw that the room had three walls and a ceiling. The walls were covered with wallpaper of an antique style, a white floral pattern over a bu
