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possible?

    He’d killed him with two strikes of his fists.

    He pushed away from the wall and stared at his hands.
    Was this another ability?

    “Ineru,” he said and looked over his shoulder at her before turning to face her. “Come to me.”

    She did as instructed. He noticed that her hand was constantly rubbing her stomach and it brought his own 19
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    hunger back out again. He had to find them both
    something to eat soon. Even when he was newly awoken after dying he hadn’t felt as hungry as he did now. Since tasting Ineru’s blood, the intensity of his craving had become unbearable. He wondered if it would always be like this.

    He pushed it back down inside of him and grabbed hold of Ineru. Wrapping his arms around her, he lifted her up.
    Her eyes widened and she pressed her hand against his shoulders, giving him a look that said she thought he’d gone insane.

    She was as light as a feather. He’d picked her up in the past and had struggled after a minute or so. Now he was holding her and it felt as though he could carry her for days.

    When she pushed harder against him, he set her back down.

    “We seem to be strong,” he said.

    A frown marred her fine brows. “Strong?”

    He looked at the wound on his arm and saw it was
    almost fully healed. “Not only that but this curse seems to bless us with the ability to heal at speeds almost a hundred times faster than humanly possible.”

    Her slim hands appeared in view and she ran her fingers lightly over the shallow marks on his wrist—marks that she had added to when she’d bitten him.

    “How is this possible?” she said and looked straight into his eyes.

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    Even in the dim light of the nearby torches on the temple walls, he could see every fleck of colour in her dark eyes. He could see them as clearly as if it had been day.

    “Our senses seem to have heightened. I can smell things that are far away and those that had otherwise gone unnoticed before. Scents of the night are as clear as your perfume and when we were back in the square I could smell the blood and the food.”

    He stared back in the direction of the marketplace and tried to shake the memory of how it had felt to be able to sense everything so clearly. It was replaced by the image of the boat builder’s daughter. He was right when he had decided that this land was no longer safe for them. There was no way they could continue like nothing had happened. People would start to notice that
    something was different. They didn’t belong here any more. This place was no longer their home.

    His eyes roamed to the distant desert and the sandstone peaks that rose from the flat plain. The moon highlighted them, casting a silvery line over the backbones of their silhouettes to show him where they were. It was like looking at a ghost of the landscape he had once had the pleasure of seeing bathed in the warm light of day.

    He would never see it like that again.

    “I wonder how else we are changed,” Ineru said and his attention returned to her.

    “I do not know,” he said and placed his arm around her shoulders when she rubbed her stomach again, “but I am certain we shall find out in time. Right now, we must find you something to eat.”
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    He frowned when her eyes shifted to his neck. There was no way he would let someone do that to him again, not even his sister. Besides, he didn’t think that his blood would be of much use to her now. She needed fresh
    blood, not his dead blood. He wondered if his would sustain her in any way. Would it abate her hunger until she found something fresh to drink?

    His stomach turned at the image that flitted across his eyes when he blinked. The sight of her killing someone wasn’t something he’d ever thought he’d see. She had always been good-natured and never once had she
    shown any malicious tendencies. To see her kill