“Sure you haven’t changed your minds?” the actor in the black cloak asked the audience. And then they had found somewhere to take shelter from the midday sun…. They had a bite to eat and drank a pint of beer in one of the countless number of pubs. Victor and Lera had spent the morning in the royal castle, a center of tourist pilgrimage.

September in Edinburgh had turned out hot. Victor nodded guiltily and said, “But at least it’s cool in here.” And all they have here is one big ‘house of horror.’”

“They have real old dungeons there…it’s very interesting. “I like the dungeons in Budapest,” she whispered to Victor. Even Lera, who didn’t know much English, could understand every word. He spoke with the precise articulation that only college drama students have. “Aagh! A-a-a-agh! Even I feel afraid at the thought of what you are going to see!”

“Now you are going to learn what real horror is like!” the young man drawled menacingly at the spectators. He was lit from below by a few crimson footlights. On a stage decorated with mystical symbols a young man wearing white makeup and a long, flowing cloak was making frightening faces. Jostling all around them were excited children and adults with embarrassed smiles. They were sitting in a room that would have seemed dirty if it wasn’t so dark. “Dungeons,” she whispered into Victor’s ear. Lera was prepared to insist on that with all the conviction of a nineteen-year-old woman in love. Victor was twenty years old and, of course, he was grown up. I NSIDE EVERY MAN, NO MATTER how grown up, there was still a little boy. Anton - the hero of the Night Watch trilogy - is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but begins to realise that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder, and discovers that a team of unlicensed Others are hunting for a fabled magical treasure, hidden in the sixth level of the Twilight by Merlin himself.V ALERIA LOOKED AT V ICTOR AND SMILED. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Indistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light.While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered. 'The Last Watch' is the stunning sequel to the Night Watch trilogy, following the fortunes of the Others.

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