My peaceful sleep is disturbed for the second time when I suddenly feel a new sanguidae thread snapping into place. I bite back the anger it causes me to know another person has been inflicted with this curse, but there’s nothing I can do. What’s done is done and it can’t be undone. All I can do now is find them and get them some help. As I slowly sit up trying not to disturb Yildiz, I look around to find we are sprawled out in a very unusual position, and I have no idea how we got here. We’re just a tangled mass of body parts and I’m not entirely sure where she ends, and I begin. I smile down at my sleeping beauty and gently brush a few stray hairs from her face. She hasn’t had a nightmare since I’ve been spending my nights with her. Partly because I have been keeping her shielded from t

