What have I done now? I shook my head. The Church of Eternal Life didn't promise much more than most churches promised, but you could join the Lutherans, and if you didn't like it, you could quit. They hid the body, he said. It wasn't my bits being bitten, but I was reminded that Nathaniel had once had no stopping point, no danger-do-not-cross sign.
But it felt odd to lay there with them draped around me and talk as if I wasn't there. No, not his warmth, his power. Blood can't hurt us, Micah said. The inside of my head exploded in white star bursts and gray miasma.
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