![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know if I have more questions or answers at this point, but I still get up and quickly head to the bathroom, trying not to smile at the fact he has a pile of packaged toothbrushes neatly tucked in a bin under the counter. ![]() “And there’s something I need to show you after that.” “If you’re finished, there’s a collection of new toothbrushes under the counter in the bathroom you used last night,” he says abruptly, a playful smirk back on his lips, as he gestures toward the bathroom behind me. He blinks out of his trance, glancing back over at me. Silence always seems appropriate when they get lost in thought. We sit quietly for a minute, since I once again don’t really know what to say. I had my own bedroom-a childhood dream made real.” I also had a steady home, food on the table every single night that I hadn’t had to kill, skin, and skewer myself. “I was the first to die, and I thought I’d been turned mortal again. “Aye,” he says with an absent nod, eyes slightly vacant. “Were you twenty-eight when you turned?” I guess. ![]() “We live those twenty-eight years like men instead of monsters.” They were good, kind people,” he says with a small smile. I offered them immortality after they furnished my ‘first’ home with things the family had been collecting for me. “This dining set actually belonged to one family who cared for me. He taps the ornate, dark, wooden table we’re sitting at, drawing my attention to it. ![]()
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