Daniel reached out and traced her ear, all the intricate crests and hollows. In the past, he wouldn’t have given two shits about a girl’s ear, but in the past year, it caught his interest. The tiny hairs in the lobe were highly reactive to touch. There was a network of itty-bitty capillaries in which he heard the blood swooshing when he fed.
“All I know’s what D told me,” he said, tilting his head to watch his finger. “There’s nine of ‘em. They’re all girls. If you kill one, another one pops up like a whack-a-mole. She says there’s one in town. I dunno, vampire grapevine bullshit.”
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on 2013-09-02 08:02 pm (UTC)Daniel reached out and traced her ear, all the intricate crests and hollows. In the past, he wouldn’t have given two shits about a girl’s ear, but in the past year, it caught his interest. The tiny hairs in the lobe were highly reactive to touch. There was a network of itty-bitty capillaries in which he heard the blood swooshing when he fed.
“All I know’s what D told me,” he said, tilting his head to watch his finger. “There’s nine of ‘em. They’re all girls. If you kill one, another one pops up like a whack-a-mole. She says there’s one in town. I dunno, vampire grapevine bullshit.”