She passed out again on the nearest mat when they got back, but Den didn’t know whether it was from the grass, the alcohol or lack of blood.Den told Jim that they had been swimming and that she was drunk. Jim could see that her hair was wet, so accepted the story. Den put her blood in the freezer and rejoined the others. His sister was giving him nasty looks for leaving her alone for an hour and asked him with an expression what he had been doing with that girl, but he wasn’t saying.
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12 INTERMISSION
At breakfast the fol owing morning, Den told his father that there was another litre of blood for him in the freezer.
“Paw, I’ve discovered a great way of getting it out. Use one of those thin plastic water bottles and squeeze the air our of it, then make
