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I supposed they would have seen the note by now

Theywhy I couldn’t have just stayed

Why I couldn’t have tried to drink the blood stored in the chilling cha the cure

That blood was tinged with Anna’s blood, after all

But I hoped they’d understand that I siain

I also hoped that they’d do as I’d requested and not co for me

They’d already lost Rose, and now to have me leave so uncereet over it

Our people depended on the

I just had to take a ti fed animal blood was temporary

That for soiven time, it would adjust to animal blood just like the rest of the vah I tried to convince myself of this, I couldn’t shake the memory of the look in my father’s eyes as he’d watched me expel the animal blood

Even he’d said, in all his centuries of experience, he’d never seen a vampire react to ani I had

I wondered how long a vampire could starve himself of blood

I realized that I didn’t even knohether a va on the subject of blood again, my consciousness becaed on

I clenchedto tree of my seat

I didn’t know exactly howThe Shade

I deliberately hadn’t been looking at the time

It only made the hours pass all the more slowly, the situationthe passageway into the vessel’s galley

I opened one of the cupboards and scanned the shelves--long-life ed foods , began to chug it down

At this point, I’d drink anything to fill the void innot to taste the milk, since I ell aware that huht that it ht have even worked

As the liquid settled in my stomach, it at least felt less hollow, even if it didn’t relieve the burning

But then I doubled over and retched it all up

I tore open a packet of biscuits and began stuffing the my body to accept them

No chance

Soon the floor was covered in a blood-traced soup of milk and biscuits