14. Don't Touch Me
I left Kiana at the restaurant and walked back to the hotel, a smile on my face and her phone number in my head — it was so much easier to memorise things and take in what used to be small meaningless details than when I’d been mortal.
Perhaps it was fate that led David and Kiana to me. I thought I’d handled my first encounter with a varakiana rather well. She certainly wasn’t what I was expecting. I wondered if all creatures could evolve to such a state that they didn’t need to drink blood or eat live flesh. Anything was possible, but for now I had to live in the present. Evolution would have to wait, and it normally did, hundreds and thousands of years.
I collected my swipe card and returned to my room, even emptier now I knew Danny wasn’t really here with me.
Damn
