I asked the fire, when they were all gone. All except for the big Viking vampire I was supposed to preserve and protect. I was sitting on the rug in front of the fire. I’d just thrown in another piece of wood, and the flames were really lovely. I needed to think about something pleasant and comforting. I saw a big bare foot out of the corner of my eye. Eric sank down to join me on the hearth rug. “I think this happened because you have a greedy brother, and because you are the kind of woman who would stop for me even though she was afraid,” Eric said accurately. “How are you feeling about all this?” I never would have asked the compos mentis Eric this question, but he still seemed so different; maybe not the completely terrified mess he’d been the night before, but still very un-Eric. “I mean-it’s like you’re a package that they put in a storage locker, me being the locker.”
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