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successfully flipping me off the rail, then
backwards off the balcony.
    The ground below me seemed mocking
as I fell. A vast garden spread from the back of the house into an exotic
minefield of plants and decorative statues.
    Surprisingly, I felt no fear as I
flipped gracefully down the many feet towards the earth. A stone pillar stood
tall below me with an ornate granite ball on top. Without even thinking about
it, my body knew what to do. Easily I landed a top the pillar, balanced on my
toes on top of the black glittering ball.
    As I looked up, Damien was staring
down at me. My brow arched inquisitively as he grinned recklessly down at me.
    With one easy step, I fell again to
the ground and landed without any effort at all. The very instant my feet
touched the earth I was running for the woods. I could feel Damien behind me,
gaining with every second.
    A vast field spread after the
garden towards a dense forest. This was the first time I had truly run. I knew
Damien could move faster than my eyes could focus. He always had. But for some
reason it never occurred to me that I could really move like that, too.
    In seconds, I hit the tree line,
jumping up to the first branch I came near. Grabbing it easily, I swiftly pulled
my body up to steady my feet beneath me like a stalking cat.
    Okay, honestly more like a
squirrel. But who wants to compare themselves to a squirrel? He circled behind
and leapt for me while I moved faster than I thought imaginable. My clumsiness
seemed to vanish more with each step. It was a rush. My blood burned as I just
ran. Damien followed in the treetops. Suddenly a brick wall hit me, causing me
to tumble to the ground, and roll with Damien. My hands thrust against his
chest as we played.
    Tackling one another, wrestling with
playful nips and jabs. Never in my life had I felt so free. Our feral like
ecstasy swelled as this went on for hours.
    Days could have gone by I would not
have noticed or cared. My body moved with lithe speed and agility I had not
thought possible for any creature. Even a Vampire.
    Running through trees that stood
hundreds of feet high, the forest was our ballroom. And so we danced.
    We spent all night in the woods. It
was amazing. Every remote sound never imagined in the world before I could now
hear. When a bird landed, I could hear the scrape of the bark. The sway of the
leaves if it were a small limb.
    As woodland creatures climbed and
scurried away from the two most menacing predators in the woods, I could hear
their hearts swell with fear. Their tiny claws dug into the earth as they raced
up trees to hide. Their fear excited me. It boiled my blood with raw need.
    Hunger ripped through my body as if
I was starved. Damien knew what my body ached for, again, for the third time
that day.
    We could hear the deer about five
miles out in a small clearing. Springing from limb to limb with no more sound
than a June bug. Hitting the earth below as soft as a bird landing, my body ran
and moved as lithe as a jaguar.
    Naturally, I went for the first one
I saw, which was not an unimpressive size. When I lunged, it felt like I was
flying, silent as an eagle with just as much grace.
    Landing on my prey, I rolled the beast
to his back. My fangs ripped into the hide like a hot knife through butter. His
agony I made sure did not last long.
    Of any of the times that day, I did
not forget the hunt. I did not become overwhelmed and black out.
    As I stood, I realized Damien was
watching with a smug and amused expression. I was covered in my dinner again.
Humiliating. Damien, who hadn’t fed, opting to observe me instead, strolled
over to me, never faltering in that bewildering grace. Hands touched to my
cheeks as he leaned closer, kissing the blood away. The fire in my body built
quickly as he forced me twenty feet back into a tree. Our bodies were free of
the outside world. Damien was far more savage then he had been before. As was
I.
    He broke a tree, too. A big tree at
that.

 

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