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The next evening . . .

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Eliza woke up in her own bed, just as the sun was going down. Despite what human legends claimed, vampires didn’t burst into flame in sunlight. They just slept during the day. The entire group had houses in the same area in a fenced in compound on the outskirts of town. They ate, trained and hung out together. The humans had taken to sleeping during the day as well. And thankfully, none of them gave her grief about where she had been after the job was over. And when she awoke, there was some interesting news waiting for her as...