‘I won!’ Tabatha cast the thought out toward them, then fell backward on the ground, unable to hold herself up any more.Jake dropped down and caug...t Annalisa as she collapsed to the ground. She was shot up so bad she couldn’t even breathe. Every time she tried to say something, her throat flooded with fresh blood. Tears began to flow from her eyes as she stared up, obviously frightened, at her beloved Jake.“It’s alright, Darling,” Jake whispered as he held the blood-soaked vampire in his arms.. It made iteasier to conceal the edges. He stretched the neck and pulled it downover his head. He pushed the features onto his own using one hand untilhe felt it stick. The light adhesive patches on the inside would makesure the masks features would move with his own. Satisfied with themovement of the eyelids and lips, he smoothed the edges of the maskaround his neck. He quickly blended the edges of the mask and the edgesof the suit together. He walked to the large dresser and picked up. ”“Holy Moly!” He was looking all around, “Do ya think maybe he could move some old broken tractors for me tomorrow?”Greg smiled, “I’m sure he would do that for us. He really likes being helpful! Let’s go get some sleep, then we’ll follow you here in the morning and get done transferring our cargo into the ammo cans and boxes. We’ll get Jonah to move your tractors just before we leave, okay?”Gramps was happy, “While you guys get your stuff done, I’ll make room in my warehouse to put those. I absentmindedly followed Samuel until we stopped, where I realised that we were in front of the now deserted bar previously owned by Frost. That brought forth another set of emotions that I wasn’t quite ready for.Looking around, I saw that Eirini was present there along with three other people, people I had seen hanging around the bar previously. I wasn’t overly familiar with them but had seen enough of them to be aware that they had been Untethered before me.“Hey, Third-Slotter! Heard you.