This story takes place in California in 1972, sixteen years after Griselda's story.
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Ark stared through the rain streaked windshield. The world was colored in night; shades of blue and purple. It had been so long since he'd seen the sun that he'd forgotten the other colors. Vague memories stirred, over bright and painted in green, red, and yellow. They belonged to another place and another time. Just like she did.
A sign went past. "Welcome to California". The painted letters filled his stomach with lead. Unwittingly, his eyes were drawn to the manila folder in the passenger seat. He knew the contents by heart. The neatly typed papers outlined the terrible crimes of a vampiress and passed sentence on her. He'd read hundreds like it in the last two-hundred-and-sixty years, since he'd
