“You love music?” “I do,” I said, nodding with my words. “Music is everything.” “Exactly. Music is everything. It is emotion and spirit and purity. And love.” Serena really wasn’t kidding about her dramatics. “Some vampires have physical gifts, and I pity them. How boring it would be to simply be human-but-faster, stronger. But my gift is unique—I sense feelings. And there is no better place to absorb those, to let them wash over you, than at a concert.” Live music. I knew exactly what she was talking about. It was everything I preached to Ian, every indescribable emotion shared among hundreds
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