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wouldn’t turn you over to the Night World elders"

"Maybe you should have," Jez whispered Uncle Bracken went on as if he hadn’t heard her "You lived

without blood then You looked like a human child I don’t knohat ht you a rabbit and bit it for you and let you sh of reht up and you knehat to do That hen

I knew you were a true Redfern"

"But I’ theht Person I’o of his hair and looked at her His eyes, nor with a pure silver flaood wo to be with her She wasn’t vermin" Jez looked away, but she wasn’t asha except a vast e infinitely in all directions

And that was good She never wanted to feel again Everything she’d felt in her life-everything she could

remember-had been a lie

She wasn’t a huntress, a predator fulfilling her place in the sche down her lawful

prey She was a murderer She was a monster

"I can’t stay here anyo?"

"I don’t know"

He let out his breath and spoke slowly and sadly "I have an idea"