from that point on , claire had a limited view of what was going on - the hood , the dark night outside , some lights glowing in nearby houses ... ... a car turned the corner , and its headlights swept color over darkness , lighting up the glass house in all its decaying victorian glory , then the sun-faded picket fence , the spring crop of weeds along the curb ... ... and then came a group of vampires out of the darkness , heading for shane and eve .