i think to fully understand you need to hear the story from the beginning . the council does n't pay all that well . '' `` getting turned would have ended it anyway . '' that 's right , both trousers and drawers ! the brass-headed tacks and brass handle shone as though recently polished . it will take us right underneath the continental divide . maybe that was the beast inside the civilized shell , the animal part of vampires that separated the species from those watered-down humans . 