I should have said goodbye, and meant it. Be firm. They both struck at once, Andreas burying his fangs in the right side of my neck, Katerina, standing behind me, in the left. Why am I so terrified of life? I was all right until I went to London.
The liquid was concentrated sulphuric acid; in it, there floated a sliver of his own flesh, sliced from the back of his hand. Is this what's making her ill? Guilt racked her, but she could do nothing to help—except to give up Karl. There was this unnatural thing I had become, moving towards the boy as Katerina held him for me. If it happened to you, if you hated me afterwards, it would be more than I could bear.
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