The Bloody Tower

OK, the Tower of London was an impregnable fort once. No old building is really secure against someone who smokes around, though - and it's open at the top anyway. I know my around it - at least, I did once.

(Most of the places that I was kind of counting on to work a gig had gone. Even the Fleet Prison isn't there any more, not as it was. I've been back and forth to London a lot, since I got stranded in this dimension - but outside what used to be the city walls. I hadn't realised how many changes there are.)

Once inside, we'd got the place a bit too much to ourselves. The whole thing is called The Tower of London, but there's a lot in there. The Bloody Tower is just one part of it. I think it's where they used to have the executions. Now it's where they have most of the ghosts. The Tower has so many ghosts that they could elect their own representative.

OK, one of Erynne's best friends was a ghost - at least, before they exorcised him or whatever. He was OK - but there's not too much that works against them and I don't always like them. When I heard bumping around in the shadows I cast the mojo just to see what it was. Out came this member of the Fang-gang, singing, in an American accent.

It can be a drag to be a vampire tourist,
They charge you all the fares and meals the same,
But it’s hard to see the sights,
When you just go out at nights,
And can’t enter all the places that they name,


Here’s a sight of London I can see quite easily,
As a vampire I know I won't come to harm,
I've heard that Ann Boleyn,
comes to haunt the tower we’re in,
and wanders with the head they chopped off,
underneath her arm…

The other tourists came to see the ravens,
Beefeaters go off duty after dark
and I tried really hard,
to see the changing of the guard,
but all today was sunlit in the park,

They told me Ann Boleyn will walk the ramparts,
But I've been here the best part of an hour,
I don't care what you think,
I'm not here for a drink,
I've come to see the ghosts that haunt the Tower.

He'd started another verse about not really believing in ghosts - which is a twist for a Vampire, but I suppose everybody is normal to themselves. Then a soldier came out of the shadows. They must both have been nervous, there was a fight. Fangboy won it, for about 30 seconds. He'd got too heated about the whole thing.

Afterwards I took Erynne to see the Crown Jewels.

(I must find the other CD with the London notes. Hope I didn't leave it in the computer over there.)