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Let it go away

So about the wintry air on his face, a white freshness that he could almost taste San Francisco, of course The cold arment, yet inside he was deliciously warm

Immortal Forever

He opened his eyes Arh the viscid darkness of the drea him to remain Armand had told him that here he would be safe

Here

Chapter 9

The French doors stood open all along the far wall And the room itself, opulent, cluttered, one of those splendid places that Armand so often found, so dearly loved

Look at the sheer lace panel blown back frolowing in the Aubusson carpet He clih the open doors

A greatsky Stiff foliage of the Monterey cypress And down there, through the branches, against a velvet blackness, he saw the great burning arc of the Golden Gate Bridge The fog poured like thick white susts it tried to s the pylons, the cables, then vanished as if the bridge itself with its glittering stream of traffic burnt it away

Too nificent, this spectacle-and the deep dark outline of the distant hills beneath their hts Ah, but to take one tiny detail-the danarled branches rising in front of hi skin

Immortal, forever

He ran his hands back through his hair and a gentle tingling passed through hiers on his scalp after he had taken his hands away The wind stung hi He reached up to find his fang teeth Yes, they were beautifully long and sharp

Someone touched him He turned so quickly he almost lost his balance Why, this was all so inconceivably different! He steadied hiht of Armand made him want to cry Even in deep shadow, Arht And the expression on his face, so loving He reached out very carefully and touched Armand's eyelashes He wanted to touch the tiny fine lines in Aran to tremble The way it felt, the cool silky mouth, like a kiss of the brain, the electric purity of a thought!

"Come inside, my pupil," Armand said "We have less than an hour left "

"But the others-"