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KAIN
I live on the outside, but I’ve always felt that way — belonging is a state of mind. It’s not so much that I’m the youngest, born to this life later than they were; I don’t have the social skills they have. Even as a human, I had my music and not much else, and it’s crazy to think that would change just because I turned.
Three hundred years isn’t a long time in the life of a vampire, but I know things humans never will. I can play thirty musical instruments. I speak twelve languages that are familiar to humans and countless others that they’ve never heard of — my ease with languages is why I was valuable … why the vampires turned me. Why they kept me. I have read thousands of human books, but in the vampire world, I’ve read texts that none of them will ever read; that even other
