Ertonport, One Year BeforeMeguitte had always loved the ocean. Standing on the balcony of her beachside apartment home overlooking the water as the sun set on the horizon, listening to the hush of the waves as they lapped at the sand always soothed her spirit, ever since those days on the water with Thaelen, Sigrid, Isolte and Caerin, so very, very long before.It had been the first time since the death of her mother that anyone had treated her, had touched her, with care and respect, and she had thought that if she had to die, and despite the humiliating method of her death, there would be some dignity to it because she would die as clean as she could be, with her hair brushed and braided, warm, rocked by the ocean, and with someone holding her hand who would mourn her passing.She had not died, however, but had been offered a new way of life, and she was still grateful for it, although she knew that amongst vampires, she was considered to be as frail, fragile and disadvantaged as a
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