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"I like your flat! This is one of the biggest in the building, you know?"

She didn’t know, but she wasn’t surprised Ioan and Deirdre never failed to give her whatever she asked for, and she’d wanted as"I didn’t But, I like es ars from a chair and sat down "It’s okay Everyone here has their own va"

Finally, a small smile lifted the corner of herThat’s e’re all together They say it’s for our own security as huis, blah, blah, blah, but really"--Emily winked--"it’s so they can keep an eye on us This floor is all students, and the one above us, too The lower floors are mostly Murphy’s people Very secure, which thrills Muid returned to unpacking Eid had coirls who knew of hied i, he had an excellent reputation and a healthy respect for Deirdre and Ioan’s pohich was the only reason they’d allowed Brigid to coid had met Murphy on more than one occasion when he came to Wicklow to consult with her faid was ready for school, Dublin was the only place any of them even considered

Because of the city’s popularity with young people, Murphy had set up a safe house of sorts for humans in the city center Human members of vampire clans came from all over the world to attend school or live there, safe in the knowledge that they could be a peers they wouldn’t have to hide froh it looked like an old hotel from the outside, was centrally located to the city center, within easy walking distance of id cleared her throat "So, are you… do you…?" Though all of Ioan and Deirdre’s clan drank aniid kneorked Murphy would keep healthy, paid blood donors so to feed his staff and others whom he was responsible for That was how civilized vampires all over the world ran their households Or so she’d been taught But how did one go about asking that question politely?

Emily smiled "My mum and dad both work for Murphy--have my whole life--so this was the only option for me But I think we’re to share a car for school"

"Oh?"

"Most of the students here attend Trinity" She rolled her eyes "Tradition, tradition But I’m for UCD like you I love the cae Dublin had always been Brigid’s goal, but she kneas o to Trinity The handsos and historic traditions of the oldest university in Ireland appealed to the age and character of ed to attend the school There were even a few vampire professors, she had heard

"So, how about you?"

"H a hangar in front of her like a shield She had been pressing and hanging her wardrobe before she’d heard the knock She carefully set the hangar down on the coffee table and sat across fro to UCD?" Emily asked "Sports fan?"

"No, no I… uh" She smiled stiffly "I want to study criram there That’s why I chose it I’rinned and her eyes swept over the rooid’s dark wardrobe and prized collection of vintage concert shirts was piled in one corner The walls, per her derey, and Deirdre and Sinead had helped her pick out a black chair and a grey sofa to go in the sid couldn’t help but coht suernails Her rooid wiped her hands on her knees She was doing well, she thought She had a co one--in her room, and she was fine "Do you want soreat"

"Okay" Brigid rose and walked to the small corner opposite where the bedroo rooed in the electric kettle she’d been about to start when she decided her shirts just had to be pressed "So, are you froid had been born and raised for the first ten years in Dublin, but she didn’t count that part "Wicklow My whole life"

"Ah Earth va two cups of tea Two s froid was tehter, but she didn’t "Uirlfriend, then?" Eid blushed

"Uh, no I like… boys" In theory