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Message: <blockquote data-quote="izillama" data-source="post: 4783894" data-attributes="member: 79171">Well, since Mike already broke the silence for ridiculously long posts, this is going to be long and dramatic whether you like it or not!The whole exchange had taken only about a minute. Edward, calm and cunning, asking them to partake of his blood as a show of good faith. Koln declining Edward's offer, then manically hallucinating and sinking to the floor in peace, lying back and smiling up from the carpet of the office. Clover looked on in horror; not at all sure what the look on her face conveyed anymore. Koln's prostrate body making him look almost childlike: a young boy trying to see the world from a different perspective. A different angle. "Didn't I tell you Clover... that I'd fix everything...?" Clover gave a fleeting look to Ruby, but she couldn't read the girl's face. Everyone else in the room seemed as dumbfounded as they felt. But Clover couldn't help also feeling a twinge of pity for Koln, coupled bitterly with a sudden, roaring fear for her own survival. It began as a tiny ember of frozen coal in the pit of her stomach, then quickly spread like cooling liquid to her extremities, numbing her already cold corpse and binding her all too surreally to the Earth. She was afraid! Truly, utterly, unimaginably afraid that she was seeing her last sights. Her eyes took in the room in one smooth snapshot: forever engraved in her memory in somber-toned permanence.But no, this couldn't end it! She was still standing here, wasn't she? They hadn't yet struck her down. Nor had they yet destroyed what little humanity she had left. They were choking her--pressing down hard and trying to squeeze out her soul like toothpaste--but they hadn't succeeded yet, had they?After what felt like an eternity, she snapped back into motion. 'Survive! Survive!' She cleared her throat, her high-pitched cough resounding like a bell in the room and calling attention back to the situation.She didn't want it! She didn't want any part of Edward, blood or otherwise! The thought sickened her. The idea of Edward's essence infecting her body sickened her. This was the prick that had wanted to kill them! Clover thought, vampire or not, she did not have the strength or conviction to take in such evil.Her face became a mask of calm. She felt the room go cold as she sent daggers of ice in all directions. She stared Edward straight in the eye, saying curtly and bitingly, "I'm afraid that I too must respectfully decline." 'Go for it.' "Only one vampire's blood has ever passed my lips, and I am indebted to her nourishment alone. I cannot betray her trust."Clover turned and stared straight at Ruby. Ever since the girl had surrendered her blood to her, Clover had felt an unreasonable kinship with her. Perhaps that was the reason she had never had the will to Command or Mesmerize Ruby like she did Koln. It was as good an excuse as any.</blockquote>

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