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"Where’s Ezra?" I got on the stool and decided to start with the simplest questions first, the ones that seeuys wanna suckI definitely didn’t want to think about

"He’s out looking for Peter," Jack answered, and Mae looked over at hieted with a wavy strand of her hair, and I knew that she desperately wanted to touch lass was alhed

"So… you’re va incredibly foolish It sounded so stupid co out of my mouth This was a fas as vampires

"Yes, love" Mae smiled at me, and it had to be the saddest,on edge, and I didn’t understand why They were the big powerful vairl If anyone should be scared, it should be me

"All of you?" I looked from Mae to Jack, who just nodded solemnly "Then why did you say that it would be better if Ezra or Peter were here? Don’t you know just as much?"

"They’re older, much older," Mae explained, and her strained expression started to relax a bit

"How old are you?" I remembered the first ti in the booth at the diner, and the way he had laughed at the question

"Well, um, I enty-four when I turned, and that was in 1994 So I guess that puts in me in my forties"

"You don’t seehed at that, which went a long way to alleviate the tension in the rooestured to his bare chest, which did not look a day over twenty-four

"Physically, we don’t age much at all," Mae elaborated "We mature in a ress emotionally Jack is closer to that of someone in their teens than of one in their twenties

"Part of that has to do with his personality," Mae se And since our et old We learn from our experiences and we mature, but not the same way people do Jack will never really act like a ets"

In retrospect, a lot of what he did e Which is why it never seeh he was older He never acted older He was, after all, at my maturity level

"How old are you?" I turned to Mae