17Strangers Bearing CandyThe club was loud and brash inside, all neon lights and industrial metal. Outside, drug dealers and prostitutes dotted the streets, not the greatest area of town. Just the sort of place that reckless young people would gather in defiance of parental warnings and curfews. Exactly why Tazia had targeted the place.
It was quite a hike from the center of Detroit to the edge of the furthest outlying district and to human habitation. Most residents had left years ago when the government evacuated the city. Now, just the poorest of the population clung on at the edges. They’d fought for their city, had grown up here. Besides, they had no money to go elsewhere.
After going inside, Tazia blended effortlessly with the mainly human clients, though she spotted a few vampires
