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"How do you feel?"

"Parched Dull Empty"

"And how did you feel after you killed your last doctor?" He said it gently, but the question see from the camera to Dr Newhaus, to the floor

"I didn’t ood friends He was the only one who understood auze in his ht there," she said "It was in his office I didn’t bring it myself"

"I know," he said "But why did you put it in his ether "Because I didn’t want to kill hiauze stops the soul froht But I didn’t"

"Who told you that?" Dr Newhaus said, his voice noticeably firmer

"People say that the Brothers use it to take infor pause

"Were you trying to take information from your doctor?"

"No," she said flatly

Dr Newhaus waited, and eventually the girl corrected herself "I just wanted to know if he felt the same way about me as I did about him That’s all"

"What happened next?"

"I kissed him and he--he collapsed, and I realized what I’d done But then I felt…full"

"Can you elaborate?"

"I felt like I had absorbed his in his past When he embarrassed himself in primary school, or when he had his first kiss The first tier he felt when his father died"

"Could you res? For exairl shook her head, looking like she wanted to cry, but couldn’t

Dr Newhaus turned off the switch, and the screen went dark

"The transferring of more detailed hts "After taking her doctor’s soul, she absorbed experiences associated with high emotion--embarrassment, fear, love, happiness…This is a rarer fore Undead, rather than young children"

"And the gauze?" Anya said froh all I could think about was e

"I believe," he said slowly, "and mind you, none of this has been scientifically proven yet, that the act of inserting gauze in thea soul may be a method that the Undead use to take infor them i gauze in thetaken in one kiss"

My breath grew shallow as I turned Dr Newhaus’s words around in auze in their e died the saet infor about how the Undead cope with death, but I was no longer paying attention How had I known the word Wanderlust? How had I known any of the answers I’d been blurting out in hts when the bell rang

Out of the corner ofatlance, and left

I ran across the courtyard, back to my roo where the infor fro fro, I thought back to what Dr Newhaus had said in class: when the Undead takes a human’s soul, there were two kinds of possible transfers --information and extended ed souls with Dante last spring?

When we kissed, hadn’t I relived his memories of e first met in science class, of e first kissed in the Latin classroom, of ere called into Headmistress Von Laark’s office for the last time?

Hadn’t I also relived events that I’d never actually experienced before? His sister getting pneu into the water Dante drowning

Like a burst of cold air, the truth wrapped itself around ed souls last spring, I had absorbed so Dante’s past and unknowingly absorbing information he had once learned That was how I knehat Wanderlust was, how I knew about the Île des Soeurs, how I knew that canaries were used in coal s