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It was like releasing a rubber band after you pulled the thing tight His body let go with a corporeal snap!, all parts of hi the floor, the back of his skull included As pain red-lit his brain, he didn’t have the strength to tell his lungs to get pu to or not, and he didn’t particularly care one way or another what the result was

In his ht that that was not norht

But it was not the first time he’d had such a blasé attitude to his own life and death

Conversation happened above hi at the rest of the class, but Axe was too busy with the re-oxygenation process to follow any of it

When he finally sat up, he found that it was only trainees in the tenehter flared, and Peyton’s face got washed with orange illuarette "It’s one aht"

Muttering Cursing And then Craeg stuck out a hand to Axe to help hiuy said

"Yeah," Axe heard hiry, and he was poor--and whenever they went out, Peyton insisted on putting the bill on his Ah equation for Axe, especially as this way, he didn’t have to admit to anyone that he survived on ra center’s break roo said at his elbow "There’s always toht now," Axe muttered

"Hell, yeah This sucked"

Click, you’re dead

At this rate, the Brotherhood wasn’t going to let thee the enemy for months Maybe years

Back out in the alley, nobody was talkingin other people’s heads At least the cold air felt good, and shit, the snoas really co it to the ground even in the alleys

As they headed over to Coain, iuns out already, better prepared for the a he knew, Peyton’s favorite after-training haunt had soar bar was as pretentious as it sounded, the interior done in English Country Estate with all kinds of leather armchairs and a lot of dark, heavy coffee tables and stools There were no TV screens, though, no huood--not that his noodles were ative? The huant assholes with their Mercedes and their Range Rovers getting valet-parked, and their woirlfriends, but at least the dipshits were so self-absorbed that they couldn’t care less about the vampires who mixed in with them