“What do you mean by that?!”, I snap. “Are you trying to tell me you’ve been in Richard’s body the whole time?!” “Yup. By the way, the whole ‘you performed a ritual to get rid of me’ sucks. I’m not some demon that needs to be exorcised”, he says dryly. “You’re so lucky they trust you enough not to ask what kind of ritual you performed and the spell you used”. “What choice did I have?! I freaking let a Vampyre escape without doing anything about it, what else was I supposed to say?!”. “There are so many things you could have come up with. Ritual sounds a bit far-fetched, for me at least. But I do have to commend your acting skills, it was superb; you made the whole class cry, even me and I’m a Vampyre!”. “Why are you here?”, I ask dryly. “I got bored”, he shrugs. “Did you know I was

