A year had passed. Kenneth and I had our thirteenth birthdays. We didn’t really have parties, because after we had set the traps and built more defences, the attacks increased. Their men started openly camping in the fields between the walls and the treeline a few months ago. It only meant that they were going to keep ramping up their attack. Luckily, the only side whose death toll was increasing was the vampires’ death toll. We didn’t lose any of our people, not to death and not to being kidnapped. Our defences were holding strong, and they were failing every attack.
Elisa and I spoke on the radio frequently. When her ninth birthday hit, she was telling me about her wolf. It had come to her, she could now shift into her wolf form. She was so excited while telling me, but she freaked out
