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"If you want to join us," he said, "you’ll find a human, half-turn them and call the nuh in a few days of trying to survive alone by yourself… Remember, the trick is to stop before you feel you’ve started" I looked at hi else, he bent down, picked up the huain, and followed the others

I stared after theroup disappeared into the trees

I had no idea where they were heading

And I had no idea what I would do now that I’d been left alone again

I breathed more freely as they rushed off, the scent of hu to feel the burning again

The agony I’d endured in the sun had taken a lot out of me

Once they’d disappeared, I looked down at the phone, then slipped it intoto do now

But soht path

I was giving into darkness enough as it was

Soht make it settle perure myself out on ed wherever it was they lived--it seeainst

Besides, I didn’t know them

They could have been enemies of The Shade for all I knew

As I madeto run as quickly as I could beneath the sun’s rays, the craving for blood returning full force, I felt glad that I hadn’t told them my real name

Not just for my own safety, but because I didn’t want to mar the na to the submarine was a foolishback

It wasn’t ain andback toward shore and arrived by the ti

I had reached some South American coast

As I cliht find, while the other part ofwith anticipation

For the rush that would once again fill my veins with ecstasy

The beach I’d landed on see for severalnobody, h a tree-lined path, sniffing the night air for any sign of human proximity

I stopped abruptly as I reached a main road

The occasional car whizzed by, but otherwise it was quiet

But it didn’t take long forpeople, not

As soon as I laid eyes on them, I was a lost cause

I sped into the center of the square like a flash of light