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Message: <blockquote data-quote="izillama" data-source="post: 4939858" data-attributes="member: 79171">[sblock]Mindy lay, almost lifeless, in Koln's gentle arms. It looked like she was sleeping. But her pale skin said otherwise. Her cold, white flesh. Clover felt helpless when looking at her. All she could think was a mantra, 'What have I done? What have I done?' over and over again. But that was not for now. What was for now was what she had to do to temporarily fix the situation. No turning back. Mindy was blood bound. And she was Clover's responsibility."She's lost a lot of blood." Clover wasn't sure who said it. But they were right. And she knew what she had to do.Huddled in the alleyway like three children inspecting a dead cat, Clover, Koln, and Ruby crowded around the mortal's form. Clover shook. She tried not to think about what she had to do.Lifting her wrist up, she inspected her own veined flesh for one moment before biting down. Hard. Blood sprang forth from her core for the second time in two nights, and she once again wondered if she would be able to bring herself to stop. She was not a fountain of youth, but one of life. And she said this over and over again in her mind as she made one more easy bite on her wrist and pressed it to Mindy's slightly agape mouth, whispering fervently, "Live!"Nothing.No good.She needed more.Clover brought her wrist to her mouth again and bit down.[/sblock]"Ouch!"Clover felt a pain in her wrist and a lump in her throat. Blood had begun to seep down and clot, and she hastily whipped her arm out of her mouth and wrapped the bleeding appendage in a bed sheet. It was early. She could just barely see the last faint traces of daylight beyond the heavily shaded windows.She sighed at her dream and how stupidly she had bit herself and got up to nurse the would.She was just returning from the bathroom with a fresh bandage over the patch of what was once skin, and she was just sitting down to her desk to check her email, when she heard a rustling from under the mattress. Koln popped his head out, and Clover smiled at him a little sheepishly, hoping he didn't see the bandage, "Good evening, Father. Good rest?"</blockquote>

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