Daughters of Darkness by LJ Smith

Author:LJ Smith [Smith, LJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Published: 2010-05-20T18:44:59.727000+00:00

CHAPTER 10

It felt like a jellyfish sting.

Mary-Lynnette kept her eyes shut and her face turned away as Rowan bit into her neck. She was thinking of the way the deer had screamed. But thepain wasn't so bad. It went away almost immediately. She could feel warmth at her neck as the bloodflowed, and, after a minute, a slight dizziness. A weakness. But the most Interesting thing was that allat once she seemed to have a new sense. She could sense Rowan's mind.It was like seeing, but withouteyes-and using different wavelengths than visual light. Rowan's mind-her presence-was warmred, like glowing embers in a campfire. It was alsofuzzy and rounded like a ball of hot gas floatingIn space.

Is this what psychics mean when they talk aboutpeople having an aura?

Then Rowan pulled back, and it was over. The new sense disappeared.

Mary-Lynnette's fingers went automatically to herneck. She felt wetness there. A little tenderness.

"Don't fool with it," Rowan said, brushing at herlips with her thumb. "It'll go away in just a minute."

Mary-Lynnette blinked, feeling languid. She lookedover at Mark, who was being released by Kestrel. He looked okay, if a little dazed. She smiled at him'and he raised his eyebrows and shook his head slightly.

I wonder what his mind looks like, Mary-Lynnettethought. Then she said, startled, "What are you doing?"

Rowan had picked up a twig and was testing itsend for sharpness.

"Every species has some substance that's harmfulto it," she said. "Silver for werewolves, iron for witches...and wood for vampires. It's the onlything out here that will cut our skin," she added.

"I didn't mean that. I meantwhy, " Mary-Lynnettesaid, but she knew why already. She watched rednessbead in the wake of the twig as Rowan drew it across her wrist.

Exchange blood, Rowan had said.

Mary-Lynnette gulped. She didn't look at markand Kestrel.

I'll do it first and then he'll see it's not so bad, shetold herself. I can do this, I can do this.... It's so wecan stayalive.

Rowan was looking at her, offering her wrist.

Copperbloodfear, Mary-Lynnette thought, feeling queasy.

She shut her eyes and put her mouth to Rowan'swrist.

Warmth. Well-being. And a taste not like copper, but like something rich and strange. Later, she'd al ways grope for ways to describe it, but she could onlythink of things like: well, a little bit like the way vanilla bean smells, and a little bit like the way silk feels, and a little bit like the way a waterfall looks. It was faintly sweet.

Afterward, she felt as if she could run up mountains.

"Oh, boy," Mark said, sounding giddy. "If you could bottle that stuff, you'd make millions."

"It's been thought of before," Kestrel said coolly. "Humans hunting us for our blood."

"Talk later," Rowan said firmly. "Blood-tie now." Kestrel's mind was gold. With brilliant knifelikeedges sending glitters in every direction.

"Okay, Jade," Rowan said. "Mark. Enough, you guys. Let go of each other now." Mary-Lynnette saw that she was physically pullingMark and Jade apart. Mark was wearing a silly smile, and Mary-Lynnette felt the tiniest stab of envy. What would it be like

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