Still Hungry

Chapter Six

A few seconds after the two entered the store, a low voice said, "Welcome, how may I help you."

Casey pushed Maddie towards the employee. "You can help her." Though Casey had learned about modern technology through the thoughts of humans, she wasn't comfortable with it quite yet. 

Maddie didn't say anything, and was instead staring at the employee. As a human, Maddie had never seen any supernatural creatures, and instead just saw human glamours. Now that she was a vampire, she'd be able to see through those disguises, which could get a bit distracting.

"How may I help you?" The employee, whose tag identified him as 'Mike,' repeated. The employee was a goblin standing on a stool behind the customer help desk. His skin was a purplish-brown with lumpy texture. He was bald, and his ears were large and pointed at the ends. "Wait a second, you two look familiar."

"What do you mean?" Maddie asked.

"Hang on." Mike pulled out a phone and showed a video of Maddie attacking that human from earlier. The video stopped, and Mike asked, "Why didn't you destroy the footage or something? I thought you vamps were really careful about hiding yourselves from humans."

"Says the goblin wearing the class-9 glamour." Casey muttered, appalled at the terrible disguise. 

He rolled his eyes, and shook his head.

"So, what are you doing here, anyway?" Mike asked the two vampires.

"I think to get her a phone?" Maddie pointed at Casey, confused. The only logical explanation was that the older vampire wanted a phone, but Maddie was still a bit uncertain. 

Mike shrugged. "As long as you have money, I don't care."

"Do you have money?" Maddie asked Casey, not wanting to get kicked out of the store. 

Casey looked up from the box that she'd been examining and said, "I probably have about 2000 U.S. dollars on me."

"So what phone model are you looking for?" Mike asked, happy that these vampires weren't just going to steal like the superior creatures were known to do.

"What about this?" Casey held up a model at random. It was an iPhone 6s.

"Awesome," was Maddie's response. She was looking forward to leaving.

Casey grabbed two boxes, then put her hand on Maddie's shoulder and teleported them out of the building and onto the top of a skyscraper on the other side of town. 

Casey sat down on the edge, and started tearing apart the phone package. When the device was free, she turned on the phone, and started setting it up. She looked up to see Maddie staring. "What?"

She shook her head. "Less than a half hour ago you barely even knew what a phone was."

Casey pointed to her head. "Hello? I have telepathy."

"Wouldn't you have found this out a while ago? Like when phones first became a thing? " Maddie asked.

"Did I not mention the rock?" Casey looked back at the phone.

"Yeah. Something about Satan?" she said, confused.

"Yeah. I was murdered by my ex. Took me a while to befriend Satan and let him to get me out of there," Casey explained. 

"You did what?"

"I made friends with the Lord of Hell." Casey noticed that the phone had finished loading, and picked it back up.

"What are you doing?" Maddie asked, looking over her shoulder.

"Stealing the wifi password, and apple account of a couple of witches living in one of the apartments in this building we're sitting on top of." Casey stated as-a-matter-of-factly.

"Witches?" She started opening her own phone.

Casey nodded.

She shook her head. What have I gotten myself into? she thought.

"Rin would have a field day with this," Casey said a few minutes later while scrolling through YouTube.

"Who?" Maddie asked, confused.

"She's a vampire. She gets hired to kill people who expose the supernatural community to humans. Well, I say 'hired'. Really its more like a long, long time ago she was ordered to and hasn't stopped since." Casey explained.

"You were away from earth for well over a decade, how would you know wether or not she's still doing this?" Maddie questioned.

"How do you know how long I was away?" Casey asked.

"You've been away long enough not to know about cameras in phones - or really modern phones in general - but you know about security cameras. This indicates you've been away for roughly 2 decades." She reasoned.

The senior vampire nodded. "True, true." I looked over at her, then back out at the busy human city in front of us. "The way I know is that Rin has been doing this for almost a thousand years, and I doubt she's going to stop anytime soon. Regardless, she likes to take jobs as a hitman that actually pay."

"Vampire hitman?"

"She likes killing people." Casey glanced back down at the phone screen in my hands. "Why won't this verifyyyyy?"

"Sounds like a nice person." Maddie mused.

"Look." Casey held up her phone for Maddie to look at.

"What?" She examined the page. "'The age you have entered is not acceptable,'" she read out loud. Maddie gave Casey a look. "You entered you actual age?"

"Yeah." Casey brought the phone back down to her lap.

"Casey, humans don't live that long." She chided her sarcastically.

"I know, I know." Casey said, adjusting the date.

"It's probably a failsafe for any underaged kids making an account." Maddie reasoned.

"Shut up." Casey ordered her, offended at being compared to children. 

She immediately silenced.

they both sat there for a while, not really speaking. The only sounds came from the life and vehicles down below. Maddie logged on to her old accounts, and updated them all. She viewed messages from friends, but didn't say anything. Casey made a variety of social media accounts, and posted small starter updates on all of them.

When she'd finished, Casey turned to Maddie and was about to say something to her, when she caught a whiff of a human. True, she'd been smelling the humans down on the streets below this building we sat upon, but this particular one had captured her full concentration.

Casey stood up, and slid the phone in her back pocket. She turned around, and jumped down from the elevated ledge and onto the roof.

"You stay here until I get back." Casey ordered Maddie.

"Where are you going?" She asked.

"To hunt." Casey said calmly, "I'm still hungry."