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"Thanks That&039;s a little creepy, but thanks I-"

Suddenly, so fast I could barely follow it, Tina&039;s hand dropped to the knife block, she pulled out a wicked long butcher knife, and whipped it underhand toward ot ready to duck (to try to duck), when I realized she hadn&039;t been aie the Fiend blinked at us fro out of his chest

"Daet back I&039;ll-"

"You&039;ll stop throwing sharp things at his heart, that&039;s what you&039;ll do!" I leapt up and went to George, who didn&039;t seem especially fazed "He&039;s okay, Tina, he&039;s not here to hurt us Jeez, good thing it&039;s not a wooden stake"

"I never even heard him approach, blast it" Tina wasn&039;t this upset when she called Sinclair on keeping secrets about et away I would have found so suitable in another few seconds"

"That&039;s co" Okay, it wasn&039;t, but what else was I supposed to say? "Good work Except don&039;t throw knives at hi "My queen, what is he doing in our kitchen?"

"He otten out of the basee is the Houdini of feral vaet hi And a cowbell" I patted hiritted my teeth, and pulled It stuck to his breastbone for half a second, then slid out Yeccccch!

George the Fiend hummed a little but otherwise stood still for it He didn&039;t bleed

"My goodness," Tina goggled "He didn&039;t even notice!"

"Yeah, he&039;s the Fiend you love to stab Poor George, does it hurt? Of course it doesn&039;t hurt You&039;d probably be screairl if it hurt Listen, you&039;re supposed to stay in the base over to inspect the stab wound

"Well, he&039;s dead"

"We do bleed," she re hue growled at her

"Better not," I said "I think he only likes me And Alice But then, she feeds him" And so did I, I reht we killed Nostro and again last night

"He&039;s dangerous," Tina nagged

"Yeah, yeah, thanks for the update Listen, they&039;re Fiends because Nostro let theht?"

"Yes"

"Well I have let them feed I mean, Alice feeds them buckets of blood from the butcher, but it&039;s not live blood They&039;re the only vampires that can subsist on-ould you call it? Dead blood? Unfresh blood? But e last night, and here he&039;s walking around and-well, being creepy, but look! He&039;s not crawling He&039;s walking He stood in the shower last night, too," I re with this"

"Good, because I don&039;t have a clue I was just thinking out loud"

I looked at his chest again "See, he&039;s not bleeding, not like you or I would Maybe he has to-I dunno-build up? Maybe I can cure him! "

"And maybe you should think this over some more before oh, Majesty," she scolded as I choain "As you would say, this is so totally the opposite of thinking this over"

"Where&039;s your spirit of adventure?"

"It wore off during World War Two," she replied dryly Meanwhile, George was obligingly sucking on

"That almost sounds familiar"

"It&039;s the Beastie Boys! &039;Brass Monkey&039;!"

"Is that good?"

"Dunno, but it&039;s a song He&039;s standing, and he knows rap songs" It orking! I would cure him, I&039;d cure them all And Laura wouldn&039;t take over the world And Sinclair would forgive ain And Jessica would stop beingout great!

"Isn&039;t tomorrow your stepmother&039;s baby shower?" Tina asked, and I instantly sank back into a funk