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BENJAMIN
On the outside, Kurt was everything strong and stoic, but inside, I could feel his uncertainty. He clutched my hand as we walked up to the house. Asher and Jesse had come out on the porch to greet the guests, and I could guess by the fluctuations of Kurt's emotional steadiness that he was mindspeaking with Asher. We were upwind of the group, so they had to have scented us before we arrived, but Kurt's family didn't turn as we approached.
Who is who? I asked. I assumed the tall man was Kurt's father, but I suddenly realized I didn't know anything about his family. He could have been adopted by a troop of monkeys for all I knew. Okay, not monkeys. The pair were clearly related to Kurt by blood—I could see from their profiles that they had the same bump on their noses, the same
