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Laughter Might Not Be the Best
Medicine
LUNA
“Must keep her safe,” Sebastian muttered gruffly in his sleep. He
shivered, his shoulders were tense, and his breath came in short
bursts. His fists grasped at the cold stone floor serving as our
makeshift bed. He tossed his head back, moaning. Fear was a heavy mist
hanging in the air.
“Shhh,” I whispered. Putting my hand on his shoulder, I rubbed gentle
circles. Sebastian was lying beside me, stretched out on the ground. We’d
found refuge in this cave just before the sun rose. We were near the back,
away from any stray sunlight that might find its way in. “Go back to sleep.
You need it.”
His eyes didn’t open. He didn’t argue with me. I kept rubbing,
eventually moving from his shoulders to his back until his breathing evened
out. He fell back asleep.
A sigh of relief escaped my lips in a whoosh. I leaned against the wall
and drew my cloak around myself. Sebastian had insisted I wear the
garment in case I got cold. His request was silly since vampires did not feel
the temperature in the same way mortals did. Still, I brought it. I didn’t have
it in my heart to deny him. Not after what we’d been through.
The weather was atrocious. The flakes were so numerous I could barely
see more than a few feet from our resting place. Icicles the length of small
children dripped down from the cave entrance, and an unnatural inky stain
coated all the trees. Death and darkness had come to the Eleytan forests,
and they weren’t leaving.
Leaning over, I brushed a lock of black hair from Sebastian’s temples.
His eyelids fluttered, but he did not wake again. Good. It had taken me days
to convince him I would be alright if he rested. Even an older vampire like
him couldn’t forgo sleep entirely. I was practically mortal in that regard.
Aches and pains haunted me when I worked my body too hard, and I still
required regular rest.
Eight days had passed since Queen Marguerite’s latest attempt to
murder me. Eight exhausting days fleeing through the endless snowy
woods, where we didn’t stay in one place longer than a night. Eight days
where I alternated between laughing, which was unpleasant, and crying,
which I hated even more.
Several things in my life were unpleasant. Not only was I plagued by
blood tears, but I also had the misfortune of hearing voices. Thank Isvana,
the goddess of the moon, I didn’t hear the voices all the time. Whenever I
traveled through the Void—the dark shadows that allowed some vampires
to move from one place to the next—they spoke to me.
The voices called me the Sunwalker, and they begged for my attention. I
wasn’t sure what they wanted, but they didn’t leave me alone.
That was strange, too. I shouldn’t have been able to walk in the sun.
Usually, that glowing golden orb was deadly to my kind. It burned vampires
from the inside out, reducing them to charred husks of themselves.
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