5
DAWN
I watch Markula leave from my spot on the couch … or as much as any human can watch a vampire leave when they aren’t purposefully trying to slow their movements. Really, I see him blink at me, then a flash of his back, then the door swinging closed. But it’s enough to know what happened.
For a few moments, no one speaks — it feels like the world has stopped, hidden for a breath in a peaceful haze, though that sometimes happens when I’m near Draynor. In life, before he was bitten, he was a doctor. He knew where the pain was and knew how to make to go away. In death, he feels the pain in himself … and he makes it vanish.
Draynor’s hand on the side of my face brings me back. His eyes are pools of obsidian. “Dawn, I wouldn’t suggest this if I thought there was a better way. Kain’s b
