Kelwyn shook himself. This was all just speculation. Maybe this impostor was somebody else entirely, with no connection to Kelwyn’s other troubles. It was certainly possible. But it felt like too big of a coincidence that there could be two people who looked just like him, who were both avians and both vampires, even spread across a hundred years.
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“It still seems kinda unreal,” said Kelwyn, “But I can hear it in there. It’s awful tiny, but it’s there.” He had his ear pressed to Harun’s belly, where there was the bare beginning of a bulge. Kelwyn’s keen hearing registered Harun’s heartbeat as a loud, deep thudding, but atop it was a faint, rapid flutter of a heartbeat, only audible with his ear pressed close.
“I have felt the little one moving, recently,” said Harun. “It is very
