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  Chapter Two

  Another Black Magic Case

  The wood demon Ray of Sunlight, and known to his friends as Sunray, slipped silently and unseen through the streets of Reigate, a small town South of London, he was following a human female who he had decided he would visit that night. The wood demon was not all bad; unfortunately he was not good either. He could walk around as a human or move through the air looking like a puff of smoke; unfortunately a wood demon dined on the life-force of Man or beast, although Sunray preferred to feast upon young human females. He was a vampire, but his kind never killed their victims, not like the fictional Dracula, because the human race was so vast they merely supped and then moved on. Sunray did have another thing in common with Dracula, his kind could hypnotise their prey, and like Dracula they could only do so to one victim at a time.

  It was quite warm in the sun and Cassie was dressed in a lightweight skirt and blouse, her jacket carried over one arm and her bag hung loosely over the other. For the last five minutes she had the feeling that someone was following her, once she had seen Sunray from the corner of her eye, but when she turned to see who was there she saw that the street was empty. Finally, after turning around for the fifth time and beginning to feel a little afraid that something nasty was behind her; she did see something, a puff of smoke blowing in the wind. When she got to her apartment she already had the key out and she hurriedly opened the door, entered, and then just as quickly closed it behind her. Cassie decided not to mention it as everything had been going along so peacefully that it seemed wrong to spoil it for her sister and her brother in law.

  That night the puff of smoke drifted in through her open window and covered her, it then stole just a little of her life-force, just enough to satisfy the creature until morning when it would find another to feast upon.