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The oven timer rang loud through the kitchen, waking Deera up from her day dream, it had been a year since she was appointed as the principal of Dhampir Academy, and yet it still seemed to her like it was just yesterday. To celebrate her good fortune the past year, she decided to bake cookies for her students today. They were blood cookies; a combination of both human and vampire food, and she knew they'd love them.

As she brought out the freshly baked pastries from the oven, her mind went back to what she'd been thinking about as she remninsced on all that had happened, she still found...