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Haha
someone’s little nanny goat.
Haha
“Raleigh Curtis.”
“Why was it your job to drive him off or kill him?”
“I can’t tell you,” he said. “I want to, but I can’t. My head hurts.”
The man, the male of my kind, had found him, bitten him, and ordered him to guard the ruin and not tell anyone why he was doing it.
Just thinking about it made me intensely uncomfortable, and, of course, I didn’t know why.
Wow. The ethics of this story are amazing - and surprising.
Whoever I was before, it seemed I had had strong beliefs about what was right and what wasn’t.
Why on earth would one of my own people take the chance of being responsible for a pointless shooting, perhaps even a death?
Yeah,he might be a bad guy without the ethics Renee has,
Haha
Haha
some of the houses were missing sinks and tubs, and I wondered.
why? Who would want such things?
Haha
Or was this stranger someone who would have come to visit the eight houses when they were intact and occupied?
visibly my kind except that he was blond and very pale-skinned—
“Shori?”
I liked his voice at once, and he smelled … safe somehow.
Iosif Petrescu,”
“I’m your father.”
I stood staring at him, feeling nothing for him. I didn’t know him. And yet he might be telling the truth. How could I know? W...
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we are long-lived blood drinkers.”
those humans who become our symbionts.
Your immune system will be greatly strengthened by Shori’s venom, and it will be less likely to turn on you and give you one of humanity’s many autoimmune diseases.
And her venom will help keep your heart and circulatory system healthy. Your health is important to her.”
Haha
She has at least one more important growth stage to go through before she’s old enough to bear children. Her child-bearing years will begin when she’s about seventy. In all, she should live about five hundred years. Right now, she’s fifty-three.”
Raleigh Curtis
“Why would he want to shoot Wright?” “He didn’t know Wright was with you.” “Iosif, why shoot anyone over this rubble? Only the people who did this should be punished.”
Ethics
You’ve forgotten who and what you are, but you still have at least some of the morality you were taught.”
Some of us have tried for centuries to find ways to be less vulnerable during the day. Shori is our latest and most successful effort in that direction.
Ina.
among us, sons live with brothers and fathers.
it’s best to avoid cities.
Some of us get used to it, but others just get sick.”
Haha
“Brook, Yale, Nicholas.”
They die of strokes or heart attacks because we aren’t there to take the extra red blood cells that our venom encourages their bodies to make.
They’re addicted to their particular Ina and no other.
pain. I found that I almost envied his pain. He hurt because he remembered.
Stefan,
“Esther, Celia, Daryl,”
I smiled, comforted that I had been right to believe that one of my mothers had been a black human.
“I don’t believe humans could have done it,” Stefan said.
Gold Bar.
“Our mothers were three sisters,” Stefan said, “and one human woman who donated DNA.
“Could their work be the reason they were murdered?” I asked.
Vasile
