"You know they won't come easily."
Moonlight glinted in silver streaks off the young man's hair as he looked down on the harbor below.
"She won't. The other will soon enough. We just have to show her," his brother said. He was older than the other three. Taller. His hair was just as dark and he resembled the other ones, save his pale blue eyes and nearly translucent skin.
"Maybe we won't have to," began the girl who was absentmindedly rubbing the lightly raised skin on the palm of her right hand.
"Because it's already started," finished the other teenage boy.
In unison they lowered their right arms, spreading out their fingers as the itching intensified on their palms.
On the outskirts of town, Diana deftly hid a gasp of surprise beneath the smile she gave Grant - her knight in shining armour who'd been in the right place at the right time. He who was taking her away from what had become, for her, the place of nightmares. She looked out into the darkness and tried to ignore the feelings that came with the itching of her scar.
And while the flames grew higher, Cassie Blake smiled in delight at the hunger she felt within. The hunger that was just beginning.
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- M.