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her, he wouldn't be here.
    “Let me go, Leeha.”
    “I can’t do that, witch. I need you.”
    “No, you don’t!” Keira maintained.
    Leeha smiled benignly. “Stupid, stupid girl. Did you really believe I would just let you go? Allow you to go back to your boring life? With you here, I have more power than I ever dreamed possible.” She giggled with delight, gesturing to Luukas. “Even a powerful Master vampire is naught but putty in my hands.”
    Keira stared at her in disbelief.  “You can’t just keep me here forever.”
    Leeha bared her fangs without warning, nightmares swirling in her eyes until Keira had to look away, lest she get sucked into them, until she was as mad as her vampire. “Oh, but I can. And if you think to defy me...well, I’ll just have to pay a quick visit to your home, and a certain naive little sister of yours.” Sheathing her fangs, she hid a mischievous giggle behind her hand. “Well, maybe not so naive anymore.”
    Keira’s hands fisted at her sides as her head snapped up, her eyes shooting fire at the threat to her sister. “You stay the hell away from Emma.”
    Leeha wagged a finger in her face. “Temper, temper, witch. Remember, I have a contingency plan. If anything happens to me, you’ll never reach her in time. There won’t be a thing you can do to save her.”
    Breathing heavily, Keira forced herself to look away, and kept her mouth shut and her magic dormant.
    Leeha studied her thoughtfully for a moment. “Since you’re such a bleeding heart, I think I’ll just leave you in here, instead of returning you to your cell. Maybe your presence will ‘comfort’ him some more.” She giggled again, sweeping her gown aside dramatically to leave, crossing the cell so fast she seemed to disappear and reappear in the doorway.
    “What? NO! Leeha…Leeha!” Keira rushed after her, but the thick wooden door was slammed in her face. Yanking on the handle, she threw her shoulder into it and tried to knock it loose, but it wouldn’t budge.
    Narrowing her eyes rebelliously, she began to speak the words of an unlocking spell through gritted teeth, when Leeha called from the other side in a singsong voice, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, witch.”
    Keira paused mid-verse, reigning in her temper, and dropped her hands.
    Tiredly closing her eyes, she listened to Leeha order one of the “normal” guards to stay there and watch the door. She pulled her threadbare blanket closer around herself, covering her bare arms and legs, unsuccessfully trying to keep the damp chill at bay. Taking a fortifying breath, she resisted the urge to cough, and tried to ignore the way the musty air burned her lungs. She didn’t know if it would be enough to rouse the vampire again, but she didn’t want to take the chance.
    Quietly as she could, she shuffled back to her corner in the shadows and sank down onto the cold dirt. Her belly growled loudly and she placed a hand over it. They’d probably forget to feed her again.
    Her eyes misted over. How had she gotten herself into this mess?
    She missed her sister, and prayed that she was ok. The last time she’d seen Emma, they’d been leaving a carnival near their hometown. It was the first time they'd really had fun since their parents had died months before. After riding every ride and eating millions of calories worth of carnival food, they'd chased each other across the field towards their car, and had wandered into a nightmare, to find creatures of hell waiting for them.
    Tall and thin, yet strangely muscular, their grey skin was rotting off of their bare bodies, yet they were alive. Blood oozed from their bulging eyes as they observed the girls, and then their leader had pushed its hairless head towards them and hissed loudly, bloody saliva dripping from its mouthful of fangs...
    They'd come for her , one of them scooping her up onto its bony shoulder and running off into the trees. Its claws had dug into the backs of her legs to keep her