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No one knew for sure where she had been born but it was presumed she had been born in Ireland She had never married It was said that she had never known love, that she had lived a solitary life and died a maiden, untouched by the hand of an?" he wondered aloud "Why did you live such a lonely life?"

Now, sitting in his favorite high-backed chair in front of the fireplace, Roshan was overco and lovely hadin the hearth, re how the sun's heat had scorched his own flesh Her agony, endured to the point of death, would have lasted far longer and been infinitely worse

Leaning forward, he braced his elbows on his knees and laced his fingers together Like it or not, i obsessed with the need to see her, to know her He was a supernatural creature, capable of feats beyond the powers and abilities of e his shape He could th of twentyit so, transport himself from one place to another, no matter what the distance

"If I can transport myself across the world, why not into the past?" he mused aloud Her past, of course And if it was possible, would his going back in tie the future in any way?

He found the idea of tiht every book of fiction and non-fiction that he could find on the subject, and over the course of the next week and a half he read the to Einstein, space was curved, time was relative, and ti conjectured that the laws of physics disallowed the possibility of a tiuments was that, since ere not overrun with thousands of time travelers froan had several interesting ideas on the subject His first was that it ht be possible to build a time machine that could travel into the future, but not into the past His second theory was that it ht be possible to travel into the past, but that the farther back in tiot, and that the prohibitive cost had, thus far, prevented ti it back to the twenty-first century Sagan's third idea was that tiht be possible but you could only travel back to the time when a time machine was invented, and since we hadn't invented one yet, time travelers couldn't reach us

Sagan went on to speculate that time travelers were already here, only we couldn't see them because they had invisibility cloaks, or that they were here and people did see theoblins or aliens Sagan also mentioned the possibility that time travel was perfectly possible but would require a trey and that civilization would destroy itself before time travel was invented

There was talk of black holes and white holes in space, and wor correctly, were the hypothetical theoretical connection between the two

One book put forth the theory that the past was totally defined,that had already happened or was supposed to happen was set in stone and could not be changed or undone The author went on to say that if a randfather, he would not be allowed to do so, that constant randfather, thus keeping the future intact

A second theory held that if a randfather, it would immediately create a new quantum universe which would, in essence, be a parallel universe where the grandfather never existed and where the grandson had never been born The original universe would still remain

Another theory said that a man could not travel backward to a tih Roshan didn't plan to use a time machine, the more he read on the subject of time travel, the more fascinated he became He watched a number of movies about time travel— Kate and Leopold, The Tian, and Somewhere in Time The last was by far his favorite, perhaps because the hero in the filraph Not that he was in love with Brenna Flanagan Vaht of folly to do so No sane vampire revealed what he was to another, not if he valued his existence

No, he was not in love with Brenna Flanagan He would never love again, but she had given hiht be to achieve, to look forward to, and that was so For that alone, he would save her life, should he be able to do so

But before he atte most mortals considered impossible, he would need to be at his preternatural best, so to speak, and for that, he would need to feed

Leaving the house, he ghosted through the darkness, a whisper of movement unseen and unheard by those he passed until he reached his favorite hunting ground in the city As a young va in doorways, lurking in shadows, he had preyed upon the dregs of hurew older and wiser, he left the slu the rich, the elite, those who dined at expensive restaurants and frequented exclusive clubs They drove costly automobiles or rode in luxurious stretch lih walls and electric fences and thought themselves safe from the rest of the world

It was so easy to breach their puny mortal defenses, to probe their minds while they slept, to call them to him Under his spell, they left their lavish chambers Drawn by his voice, unable to resist his power, they ca theht quench his insatiable thirst The blood of the rich was ever so much sweeter than that of the poor The skin of the wealthy smelled of soap instead of vomit, their hair was squeaky clean instead of matted with filth, their breath eet and clean, not sour with cheap wine

The house he chose this night was like all the others on the street— large and well kept behind a high stone wall He vaulted over the barrier effortlessly and ed woround floor A servant perhaps He gently probed her mind for her na toward hi out fro, she made her way toward hithened as she drew near She offered no resistance when he drew her into his arms Her body arm, pliant as he bent her back over his arm