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Kingston looked vaguely disappointed, and Jayce shot hi in line with traditional gender stereotypes or so

“How ’bout you, Kai?” I asked “What’s your background?”

“Japanese ian sire”

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?That’s not what I row up?”

“Same way you did,” he said

“So…you grew up tending to your sick et your absent dad to pay a bill now and then?”

Softness flared in his dark eyes for a rimaced “That’s not what I meant I just meant I was an infant, then I was a kid, then I was an adult, now I’m a vampire”

“Ah, leave it,” Jayce said with a shrug “He’s ”

“I’her up the rock, scrunching her face up thoughtfully as she checked the wards “I had that sort of normal childhood until randot sick a lot”

“How did your parents die?” Jayce asked, his voice infused with the empathy that came so naturally to him

“Car accident” She glanced over her shoulder at hi the opposite way lost control”

“That’s awful,” Xero said “Sorry to hear it”

“Didn’t o, but I do still h…” Her expression fell a little “Now I htly, as if refusing to give in to thoughts that would drag her down into a depression again “This ward’s good On to the next!”

We walked along for a while with the uneven, dark stone wall of the school to our left and the broad black and red expanse of the cave to our right