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She looked up just then, her eyes widening when she saw hi have you been there?"

"Not long" He gestured at the books "Are you looking for anything in particular?"

"Not really, but you cannot bla like the va to those who professed to know, true vampires were skeletal creatures with pallid skin and sunken red eyes Their nails were long, their breath exceedingly foul, their skin crypt-cold to the touch

"Indeed? And what is it, exactly, that you're curious about?"

"Everything"

"I would think that living here, under ive you all the answers you need"

Theflickered in her eyes and pinked her cheeks, but she wasn't ready to acknowledge what had happened, let alone discuss it with hiret, repeat it

She shifted in the chair "You don't look like a vampire"

"No?"

"No Is how I see you the way you really look?"

He laughed softly "Do you think this is sola but a rotting corpse?"

Her eyes widened "Are you?"

He dismissed her fear with a wave of his hand "Most assuredly not"

"I did not really think so," she said, relief evident in her tone as well as her expression "So much of what I read sounds like foolishness"

"For instance?" He braced one shoulder against the doorjaive her all the time she needed

"Well, one of the books said that if you want to find a vampire, you should take a horse, either all white or all black, into the graveyard and let it walk arave, then the body inside is a vampire"

Roshan nodded He didn't know if that was true or not, but he knew from experience that aniested having a virgin boy ride the horse because, being pure, both boy and beast would recoil in horror frorave

"Another one of the books said that if I was to scatter seeds on the ground, you would have to stop to count theestured at the book in her lap— "says that if a vampire finds a rope tied in knots, he would have to untie every one" She frowned "Another part says vampires can't see thelanced up at him, her expression troubled "Is that true?"

"I don't know Soer er exist in the real world, therefore we have no reflection"

"Does it bother you, that you cannot see yourself?"

"Not any at first," he adotten what I look like"

"Did it h you did not exist?"

He nodded

"I thought it would"