Immortal Sleepers by Miranda Nichols

Author:Miranda Nichols [Nichols, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Torrid Books
Published: 2017-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

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Kaelyn yawned and stretched her arms above her head, muscles straining and tendons popping from non-use. She’d remained in the same position for—she glanced back at the clock—just over four hours. Her single-minded mission had been to discover as much as she could about herself and her kind.

She had begun with the oldest book she could find about Vampires. She had learned that almost everything she thought she knew about them was utterly false. Only their aversion to sunlight seemed congruent with her assumptions. Though most of the book concentrated on the ways to kill a Vampire, she had also discovered a few things about their world and their diet that she had not previously known.

For instance, Vampires needed blood to survive, but it was not their sole source of sustenance. Because their realm lacked its own vegetation, they relied on a diet of protein and fatty acids, which they derived from the livestock that inhabited the realm. The little she had learned about their environment had also been fascinating, but not exactly what she had looked for.

So she had moved on from Vampires to Mediums. Very little documentation existed about her kind, so few of them having ever been discovered. Only five had been found since the creation of the first Hunters, ten thousand years earlier.

None of the five had been a Vampire Medium.

One thing, though, caught Kaelyn’s interest in her readings about the Mediums. Apparently, they were all born with an extrasensory gift that manifested itself through one of their primary senses: sight, scent, sound, touch, or taste.

So far as Kaelyn knew, she did not harbor any sort of special gift.

One of the previous Mediums, of the Siren realm if she recalled correctly, had had the ability to see the future in her dreams. Another, from the Sidhe realm, harbored the ability to grow plants with a single touch. Kaelyn couldn’t recall anything like that ever happening to her. Setting that thought aside for another time, she continued in her musings as she gingerly rose from her spot on the couch and meandered her way to the bathroom.

She couldn’t rightly remember what had happened to Lilith and Slade. She hadn’t seen either of them in several hours, though she knew they were still around somewhere. They would not leave her unguarded, lest she do something they considered stupid—like research a way to open a portal.

Kaelyn pushed down the rampant giddiness that swelled within her at the idea, then thought back on the last book she had read, which had detailed that very thing. Apparently, because she was half Vampire, but born in the human realm, she had the ability to open a portal and cross over to the Vampire realm. The simple thought of it sent a rush of belligerent anticipation shooting down her spine. Of course she wouldn’t actually be stupid enough to attempt such a thing.

Probably.

She had also learned that she couldn’t quite trust herself to dictate her own actions based on logic and propriety anymore.

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