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Stefan, Vasile, Mihai, and Radu.
Your human mother claimed the right to name you.” She smiled. “ ‘Shori’ is the name of a kind of bird—an East African crested nightingale.
Jessica Margaret Grant.”
Daniel Gordon!
Punta Nublada—
“How can I do this?” she demanded. “You can’t depend on me. I don’t really know anything.”
She was like Wright. She had some hold on me beyond the blood.
The Thomas Guide: King and Snohomish Counties—
Pierce County.
Sonoma or Mendocino County
Punta Nublada,
eleven large houses with garages and several other buildings scattered along either side of the road. It was almost a village. Behind some of the houses, I could see the remains of large gardens, most of them finished for the year, stark and empty.
They stared at the four of us in silence that was as close to hostile as silence could be.
Preston Gordon,”
Preston and Hayden
Wells, Manning, Henry,
Edward.
Daniel, Wayne, Philip, an...
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I don’t believe he thought of it as something that would happen again. I never got the impression that he was worried about it happening to our community.”
serial mass murder
Or it’s happening because Shori is black, and racists—probably Ina racists—don’t like the idea that a good part of the answer to your daytime problems is melanin.
your species seems to be as much made up of individuals as mine is. Some people are ethical, some aren’t.”
I wouldn’t have wanted to stay in a community that was contemptuous of my symbionts.
I also liked the fact that Wright wasn’t afraid to say what he thought.
Ina didn’t use humans as daytime weapons against other Ina. They hadn’t done anything like that for centuries.
Preston
“Joel Harrison.
Jill Renner,
Linda Higuera
Martin,
Martin Harrison.
Wright and Brook
“Iosif told me what would happen if I accepted him, that I would become addicted and need him. That I would have to obey. That if he died, I might die. Not that I could imagine him dying. That seemed so impossible … But he told me all that. Then he asked me to come to him anyway, to accept him and stay with him because I could live for maybe two hundred years and be healthy and look and feel young, and because he wanted me and needed me. I wasn’t hooked when he asked. He’d only bitten me a couple of times. I could have walked away—or run like hell.