If—if you had fed on me, I would have died—or gone mad? A careful vampire does not kill; but I wish it were only blood that we take, Charlotte. Some women have to look after themselves, but there's no need to do it if you don't have to. Knowing you as I do, I would normally have believed it. No love, no anguish; only a weariness that was too stale to be anger.
Karl struck a match, and lamplight flared and spilled down the steps. But then an endless night of screams muffled behind closed doors; had she dreamed that? Surely Father, don't weep. And from the summit, Karl pointed up through layers of blue, white and silver noctilucence.
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