Searching the alleys for blood Amy and Ruthie are surprised when the back door of a hotel on Bank Street violently flies open and a man and woman tumble out into the alley. Ruthie is content drinking the blood of rats but Amy is thrilled to possibly find a human to drain when they realize the man is attempting to rape the woman. As the victim struggles to free herself from her attacker Ruthie easily tears him away from her and tosses him against the alley wall where Amy is greedily waiting to drain his blood and leave him for dead.
As I wrote this chapter I was imagining the alley behind Ernie's Cafe in New London. Ermie's front door is on Bank Street but this alley is accessed from Golden Street. This is how it looks now, obviously, much different than it must have looked in 1850 when the story takes place. The Royal Hotel is above Ernie's and that is the hotel I had in mind while I was writing, although the original Royal Hotel burned down and was rebuilt as this brick building. I think the original was a wooden structure, but I could be wrong.
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