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It was our turn to pause as we considered the iht up his forehead, and Oliver looked stunned I was probablyof the situation, because to h To be honest, I actually had a lot o No offense, but we've seen some of your brothers They look a little different fro "They are bizarre, aren't they? Jack decided that after e of ten It does so to them, makes the enough to be useful to him An army that runs on blood, and desires little else One that won't try to seduce any of Jack's hare, just watched him with fascination

"That was irls Jack had acquired on his travels I had only ever known e house just north of here Isolated In those days there was no interference froencies, as there would be nowadays Another reason why Jack took everything underground recently, so to speak But back then ere able to have a fairly carefree childhood, my three sisters and I Jack was absent forthe rest of Europe for other vampires Anne still hated him back then, so she was more of an ally and a friend to us than a ht fourteen year old Ae in the south of France"

He paused then, and his eyes held a distant expression, as is he were reliving a bittersweet past

"She was a lovely little thing She had dark eyes, and golden curls, and she hid her fear of Jack behind a rin She was the most beautiful creature this fifteen year old boy had ever seen I had changed by then, and, like every other teenager that has ever lived, I believedand fast Then one day I realised what Jack was doing toto do to Ae howled through hteousness, I sought hiht, the crusader defending the helpless" He shed at me, and the proceeded to show me exactly how it felt to be helpless He systele bone in ht It took hih the trees and hiony, awaiting death with anticipation of relief, he dragged Aht next to me"