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Zoey looked annoyed at the question "Yeah, she seems fine Well, she’s sad and all, but that’s nor with the pyre until after the sun rises I guess Dallas came by and made some kind of stupid scene, which is totally like him, but Shaunee handled it"

"You didn’t think you needed to stay with her?"

"Shaunee? At the pyre?" Zoey frowned at hih Priestess"

"Well, technically, as long as we’re stuck here at the House of Night, Thanatos is her High Priestess, not me And Shaunee said she told Thanatos she wanted to stay by the pyre by herself Thanatos respected her wishes--I figured I should, too Do you have a proble soap out of his face while he tried to figure out how to talk to Z She’d been so da on the balcony had happened showing that Aurox was Heath and Heath was Aurox Itwith a porcupine!

"No," he finally said "No probleht with you I just wanted to know about Shaunee"

"Erin’s funeral’s over Shaunee’s fine That’s about it I want to knohat really happened with Aurox and those hu about"

Stark’s stohtened "You mean Aurox"

"Yeah, Aurox" Zoey frowned "That’s what I said So, what’s going on?"

Stark was too tired to argue with her, so he ignored her Freudian slip, even though it uys somehow found a hole in the school’s wall--not very far fro for hot vampyres" That’s about it" He repeated her words, pulled his shirt off, and started to brush his teeth

"Stark, seriously? You’re leaving out h the toothbrush, hoping she’d get the clue and stop with the interrogation "No big deal I used my red vamp superpowers to ot lucky I didn’t haul thee them with public intoxication, and call their parents And they think the House of Night is on ht from here on out, which ood"

She didn’t say anything else for as long as it took hiet in bed, but he knew fro her forehead that she had lots more to say Plus, he could feel her tension He could always feel her tension He realized he should rub her shoulders and try to get her to relax, but he couldn’t quite get past the reason for her tension

Aurox was Heath Zoey loved Heath

And that hurt Stark’s feelings and made him feel like shit

So, he lay down next to her and blew out the little flicking gas la inside him that Zoey would curl up on his shoulder and put her arms around hi to be with Aurox or Heath or anyone except him

Instead, frohed "He was running around the school wall I didn’t really get why, and he was too wasted to explain it toshuts off his mind," Zoey said

"How do you know?"

There was a short silence, and he could al, then she said, "It’s what Heath used to do when he had a problem He’d run himself exhausted and it would shut off hisshittier by the moment

"Where is he now?" she asked

"In the basement passed out," Stark said

"I didn’t think he slept"