Later that night, as Erin sat awake in bed, she began thinking about the previous day. Everyone had a brush with death fighting against that two spiked dalki, Layla especially, but because of the vampire system, they all made it.
'I wonder if...' Erin thought, almost scared to finish it, '... Am I strong enough to let myself get close to them?'
If she wasn't, if she miscalculated her strength, her heart would break once more if those around her had died. History would repeat itself, and she would have nothing again.
But it didn't.
Still, Erin wouldn't be comfortable until she knew that everyone else around her was strong enough to defend themselves against a dalki. They survived, but they were also lucky.
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