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"Wolves do it differently. They work like humans till they activate, when they're about your age - and then they take less than six months to look twenty-five. Is that more or less strange? Same amount of strange?"

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"No, that's weirder."

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"And then there's vampires, who are humans for however long and then they stop right where they are. Turning humans who aren't your age bare minimum is extremely not allowed."

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"Why's that?"

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"Psychological development. Little kids who get turned - stay little kids. For centuries. Nowadays if somebody turned a kid anyway, you could fix that with magic or torching or whatever, but the dead vampire children who've been resurrected had a hell of an adjustment period getting used to being human again with childlike emotional processing. Grownups can swap between species without too much of an issue, not so much seven-year-olds."

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"Sucks for them, I guess."

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"Yeah. Not a particularly happy chapter in supernatural history."

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Felicity shrugs.

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"Stop me if I start sounding too much like a textbook."

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"Never had a textbook about vampires."

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"There are some! Mostly they're for puppy schools - half-vampires mostly get away without formal education, we grow too fast and remember enough that we can do without - but they exist. Elspeth wrote a lot of them."

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"I still never had one."

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"Well, you could probably download one," says Kerron, gesturing at Felicity's computer. "I'll conjure you one if you prefer paper."

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"Nah."

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"Okay. Not such a history buff, I take it."

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He shrugs. "Guess not."

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"I've never been to this island before," Kerron says after a pause. "Feel like showing me the place?"

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"Sure, I guess."

He gets off the couch, leaving his poof and his computer behind. The poof hops off the couch and rolls away down the hall toward his bedroom. The computer stays put.
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Kerron follows his uncloid. "Very tropical," he remarks.

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"Yeah."

Also there is a beach!

The beach has sand.

The sand has castles.

They are variously sized, variously architected, and in various stages of being destroyed by tides and weather; one of the newest ones is also the biggest, almost as tall as Felicity. It has towers like teeth and a sandy snake coiling around its outer wall. It looks like the kind of place you would find an evil wizard.
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"Ooh, somebody's been playing with architecture. These are neat."

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"They were fun," he says.

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"There's a sand sculpture contest in Safesun every August."

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Felicity laughs. "You gonna steal my ideas?"

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"Maybe, maybe not. Certainly not if you show up to check up on me."

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