The first tent Talia slipped into had an entire family fast asleep.
A man, a woman and their two children laid on thin beds, covered by blankets that smelled funny.
Her blade slid across the neck of the man without hesitation. The skin parted and blood sprayed all over the bed and unto the ground.
Although the warm blood touched her, the woman did not wake up before the blade crossed her throat too.
This was not the first time Talia had killed.
To get the hesitation out of the way, she had taken part in killing the lookouts earlier that night.
Unfortunately, because she lacked Blood Storage, she could not just absorb and store blood It had spilled onto the ground and soaked into the dirt, wasted.
She moved toward the two children on the floor… then she froze.
They were small, curled against each other.
Talia had set a limit at age four because anyone above that age tend to have clear emotional memories of their family.
