Betrayed by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780312596293
Google: EHDhbwAACAAJ
Amazon: 8498004713
Publisher: Da Kuai Wen Hua
Published: 2006-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

I was carrying Nala out of the media center—the cat had

been so sound asleep that she hadn't even bothered to

complain at me when I picked her up. I checked the clock

as I left the room, and couldn't believe that several hours

had passed. No wonder my butt was asleep and my neck

was so stiff. But being temporarily uncomfortable didn't

real y matter because I'd actual y figured out what I was

going to do for the Ful Moon Ritual. It was a huge weight

lifted from my mind. I was stil nervous, and didn't spend too

much time considering the fact that when I performed the

ritual I'd be doing so in front of a bunch of kids, the majority

of whom were probably not thril ed that I had taken over

leadership from their buddy Aphrodite. I just needed to stay

focused on the ritual itself, and remember the amazing

feelings that fil ed me whenever I invoked the five elements.

The rest would work itself out. Hopeful y.

I pushed open the heavy front door of the school and

walked out into a different world. It was snowing steadily,

and must have been for the entire time I was in the media

center. The school grounds were completely blanketed by a

comforter of downy white. The wind had whipped up and

visibility was terrible. The gaslights that marked the

obscured path were not much more than glowing pinpoints

of yel ow against the white darkness. I probably should have

gone back in the building and made my way along the

school's hal toward the dorm, staying inside for as long as I

could, and then making a quick run from the far side of the

school to the girls' dorm, but I real y didn't want to. I thought

about how right Stevie Rae had been. Snow real y was

magical. It changed the world, made it quieter, softer, more

mysterious. As a fledgling, I already had quite a bit of an

adult vampyre's natural protection against the cold, which

used to creep me out. I mean, it made me think of cold,

dead creatures who existed by drinking the blood of the

living—total y gruesome, even if I was bizarrely drawn to the

thought. Now I knew more about what I was becoming, so I

understood that my protection against the cold was more

about a heightened metabolism than about being undead.

Vampyres aren't dead. They're just Changed. It was

humans who liked to fuel the scary myth of the walking

dead, which I was beginning to find more than slightly

annoying. Anyway, I real y enjoyed being able to walk

around in a blizzard without feeling like I was going to

freeze. Nala burrowed herself against me, purring loudly

when I wrapped my arms around her protectively. The snow

muffled my steps and it seemed for that moment that I was

alone in a world where black and white had mixed together

to form a unique color just for me.

I'd only walked a few steps when I sighed and would have

popped myself in the forehead if my arms hadn't been fil ed

with my cat. I needed to go by the school spel s and rituals

store and get some eucalyptus.

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