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I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all._______I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation__ut there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei._______Plague carrier._______Living death._______Drainer of life._______The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word

Death stalked toward us on padded feet._______And it was not alone.

She is so tiresome. __m I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I__l be both!

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life._______ To date, I had made three.

Don__ listen to the ramblings of fools,_ he said, smiling grimly. __hen it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn__ recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I__ ever seen her.

He was mocking me. I could see his mouth beginning to lift in a maddening smirk, a smile that was half sardonic and half secretive, as if the fate of the world depended on the answer to a riddle only he knew and would never share.

Tell me, Eric,_ he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. __ave you ever tasted blood?_________y mouth was so dry I could barely find the voice to answer him. __hat an odd question...__________ut a valid one. Well, have you?____________e cut my lip before, so yes, I suppose I have tasted blood, but...__________ot your own, you foolish boy._ He let out a short, derisive laugh and leaned in so that he was only a few inches from my face. __ mean the blood of another.__________ood God, Stefan, of course not!__________ity...