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He alking one of those ridiculous puggle dogs, and it sensed trouble before he did The dog had been sniffing along the path, but then it looked at us and barked No sooner had the guy looked toward us, then Stellan burst out from nowhere and dove on hi cauy didn’t even have a chance before Stellan ripped out his throat Jane screamed, and she was the only one that rily but realized the danger was too nawing at his throat, and I could see the blood spurting out around him, as well as smell it His body convulsed and shook, and I heard the sounds of bone tearing as Stellan couy’s body stopped ht, but I couldn’t look away I wanted to throw up, and I hatedthirsty over the scent of blood When I felt Milo’s hand, I almost jumped He put his hand inso horrific inperson, and when I finally ed to look away, I saw that Milo had tears in his eyes Suddenly, he looked so young and scared, and hehim, but I was afraid of how Gunnar would react, so I settled for holding his hand

"It’ll be okay," I lied, looking Milo in the eye "At least it happened really fast I’"

"He probably didn’t," Gunnar admitted "But he could’ve Stellan was a little hasty with him, but he can do it much slower Shall I have hihed Jack moved to block both Milo andhands and shivering like two scared little kids

"Stellan!" Gunnar shouted without looking at him

Stellan gave up on eating the guy and lifted his head His face and chest were covered in blood, and he wiped at them absently with the back of his sleeve as he walked over to us

"What do you want from us?" Jack asked He was as scared and sick as I was, but he could ala the corpse in the middle of the trail like a discarded piece of trash, like a half eaten apple Gunnar’s eyesbehind iant vampire had somehow crept up behind us, and he wrapped his ht against the vaest person I’d ever seen in th behind it Milo was still grippingto pull him from the va to letwith Milo as the vao "Alice! Let hiers slipped, and I let go of hi his are brown eyes had never looked so sad or scared in his life I kicked at Jack, but he wouldn’t let ood friend Bear isn’t hurting hiantuan vampire, had Milo firmly secured in his ar hiainst him, but he didn’t look like he was in any real pain, just terrified

"Milo – that’s your nahting "Milo, are you in any pain? Is he hurting you?"

"No," Milo grunted and settled down in Bear’s grip He was saying it for ainst Jack He looked over at ainst Jack, but so I would’ve taken off towards Milo the second he did

"Let hi to do with this! Just let hihed at that, but I’, but he was gauging the situation He knew Gunnar had soure it out I knew that too, but I couldn’t keep my eht not be arriving for awhile," Gunnar said with faux sadness "So I thought ould play a galared at hi – va, except you have to kill whoever you tag Since you’re new to this game, we’ll keep it easy and start with two players How about… you," he pointed to Jane, "and you," he pointed to me "And since you’re the vampire, you’re It, Alice"

"No! I already told you I’usted

"But you don’t even knohat the prize is yet?" Gunnar set hiets him, and we all kno he likes to play" Gunnar nodded to the corpse on the trail "But since I aift After Stellan eviscerates Milo, I will personally give you his heart"