<span style="font-style: italic">An hour, huh?</span>Aloise gazed out the window, observing the endless stretch of cracked, dry earth bordering a single twisting road. Off in the distance a few mountains were visible, but other than that there was nothing. A few clouds rolled lazily across the sky, swirling and gradually becoming thicker and darker.<span style="font-style: italic">Oh please, let the clouds blot out the sun before then,</span>he thought, lifting a hand to his aching teeth.<span style="font-style: italic">I only have about an hour before I turn back. There's no place to hide here...</span><br/><br/>Time droned on; progress was made on the bus repairs, Aloise came closer to transforming back into a vampire again, and the clouds became ever darker and thicker.<br/><br/>"You said it was going to rain today?" Aloise asked Zage after a while, hopeful it was true.