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A week later everything is back to normal…and yet not normal at all. The quarantine on non-infected shifters has been lifted, but the inter-species dating ban is still in effect. Relationships have broken up, and not just romantic ones. Some hard words have passed between friends with the arrival of the plague, and having the vamps test blood wasn’t the best move on the healers’ part.
I was cleared of the sickness and sent back to my room where Tina was freaking out because Vee wasn’t reacting well to the witches’ fumigation spell. She bared her fangs and hissed at me, “This is all your fault, Swamper.”
My roommate hating me was definitely normal. Almost comforting, actually. But Vee’s head was hanging low, and while it’s hard to develop a close personal relationship with a plant, I
