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EIGHTY-TWO | FLAWED (PART 1)
I grinned at Falmer over the sounds of Camila and Alexander’s bickering. We were walking to the edge of our territory, and it seemed that my mild-mannered suggestion had set them off. And, despite Falmer’s prior claim that he wasn’t interested in their disputes, he kept chipping in with unhelpful information that only served to wind them both up more.
With the cold biting at the tip of my nose, I’d never felt more joyous, more free – more alive.
“Our first date was at that underground bar, remember? It was in New York, during the prohibition. There was that glass chandelier refracting the light all around us, Alex, and it was shining in your eyes…” Camila trailed off, her own eyes gleaming at the memory.
But Alexander was less than impressed. “No, Cam, I’m sorry, but you’re just wrong. We met in the nineteen-twenties, sure, but it wasn&r
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I wanted to hunt after the patrol, so I asked Falmer to stay with me. I didn’t plan on staying out for long – I felt frostbitten, from the tip of my nose to the tips of my toes. My hands had suffered the worst, though; they felt hard, like unmoving icicles beneath the cotton of my gloves. As the dawn broke across the sky I hoped that the first rays of sun would bring heat with their light, but I remained cold even as they burned in streaks of pink and gold, blazing through the darkness.“You know,” Falmer said, watching me idly as I crept after a white-tailed deer, “I did encounter a legend that told of a vampire who became human again.”“Oh?” I faltered, and at the crunch of leaves beneath my boot, the deer stuck its tail into the air and ran. I sighed. I didn’t want to go for anything smaller – I was hungry, and I didn’t want to hurt anything I drank from.
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