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Authors: Charlotte Blackwell
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Nathanial, but it is all in good fun.
“ It was a Christmas gift,” Nathanial smiles at me.
“ I guess someone was good this year,” Ben pokes.
Without divulging that it was a gift from my family he just replies, “Yeah, Santa was good to me this year.” Then we head to class.
It’s a pretty typical day with the exception of everyone greeting us now. The seven of us, which includes Danika, eat lunch together again, just like before winter break. We quietly discuss what is going on around us, and laugh about everyone’s chatter about us. I would have thought that after our New Year’s party the chatter would die down a little, but I think it may be worse now, albeit nicer. After lunch we finish out our classes and head home, just continuing through the motions of being regular teens. Nathanial, Ebony and Matt all come to our house to study, bags and books in tote; midterms are later this month and everyone wants to be well prepared.
We start working on our homework and then we can study for our midterm exams. As the others study, my family and I excuse ourselves to go on a scouting trip to ensure we remain well fed. We have been so caught up in training we haven’t stocked up on animal blood. We’re trying to ensure fresh human donation every other day, but don’t want to overdo it. We have worked very hard to sustain our life without causing harm to others, and too much fresh blood could result in blood lust. Danika has remained on her usual diet of blood from the blood bank combined with animal blood; she wouldn’t be able to handle fresh blood, and definitely not straight from a mortal.
“ Danika, you can stay here with our guests; I have your dinner prepared in the kitchen, as well as some snacks for our guests,” Florence informs.
***
“ Can you believe we caught a moose, a bear and some smaller animals?” Alexander says with excitement. This will help to replenish our stock nicely; the larger animals allow for us to extract more. We are able to get several bags of blood from one large animal.
We all enjoy the thrill of the hunt; after all, it is our nature. This is not something we normally all go out together and do; because of our diet we just remove the necessary amount of blood and store it. However because we don’t know what is to come, we make sure we have extra to store.
“ I’m amazed that we saw a pair of wolves. I thought they had been extinct in the area for over 150 years when they were run out by hunters,” I admit.
“ There have been a few reports of sightings over the last few years, but never confirmed,” Elijah announces. “I think it is best to avoid them. We do not want to cause the extinction of an animal in the area and interrupt the natural order of things. If there are only a few left in the area, we are best to leave them be.”
Isaac agrees, “Did you notice the unusual way there are several other animals hovering around the two wolves? Wolves don’t usually keep company with other breeds of animals; this is very suspicious.”
We brush it off for the time being and hurry back home. While the others are still studying, I run up stairs to shower; I don’t want Nathanial to smell the carnage on me. Although he knows what just happened and accepts it, I’m still concerned how he’ll react. It doesn’t take me long to get all cleaned up, and I head back down to the library, where they are all discussing our wolf sighting. “I couldn’t hear the thoughts of the wolves clearly, but I did get feelings from them as well, as the other animals that were nearby. I have never experienced such feelings before, at least not from an animal. They are usually a blank slate for me. I just don’t understand this,” Alexander admits.
Constance adds, “When I tried to see something around them, I kept seeing a group of men. I have never had a vision like that before.”
We all got a different feeling around these wolves, and agree they aren’t right for hunting.
“ It was a Christmas gift,” Nathanial smiles at me.
“ I guess someone was good this year,” Ben pokes.
Without divulging that it was a gift from my family he just replies, “Yeah, Santa was good to me this year.” Then we head to class.
It’s a pretty typical day with the exception of everyone greeting us now. The seven of us, which includes Danika, eat lunch together again, just like before winter break. We quietly discuss what is going on around us, and laugh about everyone’s chatter about us. I would have thought that after our New Year’s party the chatter would die down a little, but I think it may be worse now, albeit nicer. After lunch we finish out our classes and head home, just continuing through the motions of being regular teens. Nathanial, Ebony and Matt all come to our house to study, bags and books in tote; midterms are later this month and everyone wants to be well prepared.
We start working on our homework and then we can study for our midterm exams. As the others study, my family and I excuse ourselves to go on a scouting trip to ensure we remain well fed. We have been so caught up in training we haven’t stocked up on animal blood. We’re trying to ensure fresh human donation every other day, but don’t want to overdo it. We have worked very hard to sustain our life without causing harm to others, and too much fresh blood could result in blood lust. Danika has remained on her usual diet of blood from the blood bank combined with animal blood; she wouldn’t be able to handle fresh blood, and definitely not straight from a mortal.
“ Danika, you can stay here with our guests; I have your dinner prepared in the kitchen, as well as some snacks for our guests,” Florence informs.
***
“ Can you believe we caught a moose, a bear and some smaller animals?” Alexander says with excitement. This will help to replenish our stock nicely; the larger animals allow for us to extract more. We are able to get several bags of blood from one large animal.
We all enjoy the thrill of the hunt; after all, it is our nature. This is not something we normally all go out together and do; because of our diet we just remove the necessary amount of blood and store it. However because we don’t know what is to come, we make sure we have extra to store.
“ I’m amazed that we saw a pair of wolves. I thought they had been extinct in the area for over 150 years when they were run out by hunters,” I admit.
“ There have been a few reports of sightings over the last few years, but never confirmed,” Elijah announces. “I think it is best to avoid them. We do not want to cause the extinction of an animal in the area and interrupt the natural order of things. If there are only a few left in the area, we are best to leave them be.”
Isaac agrees, “Did you notice the unusual way there are several other animals hovering around the two wolves? Wolves don’t usually keep company with other breeds of animals; this is very suspicious.”
We brush it off for the time being and hurry back home. While the others are still studying, I run up stairs to shower; I don’t want Nathanial to smell the carnage on me. Although he knows what just happened and accepts it, I’m still concerned how he’ll react. It doesn’t take me long to get all cleaned up, and I head back down to the library, where they are all discussing our wolf sighting. “I couldn’t hear the thoughts of the wolves clearly, but I did get feelings from them as well, as the other animals that were nearby. I have never experienced such feelings before, at least not from an animal. They are usually a blank slate for me. I just don’t understand this,” Alexander admits.
Constance adds, “When I tried to see something around them, I kept seeing a group of men. I have never had a vision like that before.”
We all got a different feeling around these wolves, and agree they aren’t right for hunting.
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