Cruor
(n)
Murder, Bloodshed
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"GILBERT!!" Merliah screamed at the top of her lungs, his name in her voice ringing through the empty hollow home.
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"Happy Birthday darling." Gilbert said with a smile as he set the pie that he made down on the table of their new home. It was the same pie he had Merliah try back when they lived in Quebec.
Merliah kissed him on the cheek, Hiraeth running up to her; she was two now. They did not know her exact age yet they were able to make an estimate when they took her to the doctors when she fell ill from the flu, which she soon recovered.
It was Merliah's sixteenth birthday, Gilbert was five months and three weeks older than her, yet sixteen wa
