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Thirty One

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Mac

The small mound of what looked to be clothes lay piled on the floor in a heap. I frowned, wondering who had left such an untidy mess, but as I rounded the desk, I realized, with a sinking feeling of alarm, that this was no pile of clothes. Rather, it was a sleeping bag containing a person, and to my utmost shock, that person was Blair. She lay curled up in a protective ball, her face turned towards the wall and away from me, but I could instantly recognise her scent and form even in the dark room.

What was she still doing here? Why hadn’t she gone home to sleep?

“Blair?” I called and she stirred. I rounded the sleeping bag just in time to see her eyelids flicker briefly, then shut again. I caught a hint of a scent, not the same one from earlier and not her usual one either. This one was a sickly scent, sharp and acrid. Her face was pale - too pale, almost a deathly white, beads of sweat lined the exposed part of her forehead.

My chest seized a
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