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The risk to life for all of theht now that I found it hard to focus on anything with any conviction The sht hand on the table in Marcus' library, open and beeping reassuringly every few seconds It had become a very precious melody for me in the past few hours It soothed me now as Julia and I discussed possible reasons for a picture of her sister appearing in reed on - there was no way it was just a randoested Julia "That would explain how you carry the gene That was how Bill h he only had it on one half of his chro iron"

Her casual reference to her husband who had died so violently a few days ago startled me She didn't seem to miss him much Well, ould she She had Marcus now, and by all accounts her uess the fact that he kept referring to her and Oliver as freaks could have soured it a bit I had met him hours before his death, and my impression of hio and a massive sense of entitlee of his blood spraying all over the place as that blood drinker slashed his neck with its teeth surfaced in my mind It probably would have been better to have divorced him, but his violent death had been an unfortunate side effect of getting involved with a bunch of iron metabolisers I suspected that Julia would mourn his loss , rather than as the de reat aunt (with however enerations between us) After , I felt pleased I liked Julia A lot And the possibility that she was fa No wonder ht about it, theto understand her

"She'll never tell me what this is all about," I said out loud, half to ht eventually," Julia seemed to pick up on what I h the rest of these pictures and try to put a tiether And we need to see if we can find a picture of your father"