Ian's murder and the appearance of another group of Adam's fans at the house, compel the couple hastily to return to Tangier with only what they can carry onto the plane.
Before dawn, Ava kills Ian by drinking too much of his blood and Adam kicks her out of the house.Īdam and Eve dispose of Ian's corpse in an acid pool in an abandoned factory. Ava offers Ian a hit off the flask she secretly filled with blood and brought to the club but Adam snatches it from her with supernatural speed and insists they leave. Ava gorges herself on their stash of the "good stuff" and hungry for excitement, persuades them to go out to a local club with Ian, where they hear Adam's music playing by the band White Hills. Their idyll is shattered by the arrival of Eve's younger sister, Ava, from Los Angeles. They spend their nights cruising the empty streets of Detroit, listening to music and playing chess. Eve confronts Adam when he returns, chiding him for wasting the life and opportunities he has to enjoy and appreciate the good things in the world, as well as their relationship. Her vampire senses reveal to her that the bullet is new and she is worried.
Soon after she arrives, Adam goes out for more blood and she discovers his revolver hidden under the bed with the wooden bullet. When Eve phones, she recognises Adam is despondent and decides to come to Detroit to comfort him. Ian promises to discreetly spread rumours about Adam living elsewhere to draw them away. His reclusive nature adds to his mystique as a musician and composer he is upset when some intrepid fans turn up on his doorstep. Having acquired much scientific knowledge over the years, Adam has built contraptions to power his home and a vintage sports car with technology originally pioneered by Nikola Tesla. He pays Ian, a naive young music fan, to procure vintage guitars and other assorted curiosities, including a custom-made wooden bullet with a brass casing he thinks of using to kill himself. He spends his days recording his compositions on outdated studio equipment and lamenting the state of the modern world, whilst collecting vintage instruments. His desire to reconnect through his music is at odds with the danger of recognition as well as his contempt for the corrupt and foolish humans he refers to as 'zombies'. Eve relies on their old friend, the author Christopher Marlowe, who faked his death in 1593 and now lives under the protection of a protégé.ĭespite having influenced the careers of countless famous musicians and scientists, Adam has become withdrawn and suicidal. Adam, still a famous musician, also fears exposure, visiting a local blood bank in the dead of night in disguise as " Dr. Rather than feeding on humans directly, they are dependent on local suppliers of the "good stuff," for fear of blood contaminated by the 21st century environment. Adam sits holding a lute, in his cluttered Detroit Victorian, as Eve wakes up in her bedroom in Tangier, surrounded by books.
Married for centuries and now living half a world apart, two vampires wake as the sun goes down.
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