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Lenora was beyond livid, although the baby sleeping peacefully in her arms would never know it. And when Santos casually walked back into camp the next morning, her eyes flayed him wide open causing Santos to halt mid-step. Lenora spoke quietly but nobody missed the steel in her voice.
"In my office now." They walked in utter silence, past the Dhampirs going through their morning defense session and around the blacked-out tent housing the vampires until they came to the entrance of a nondescript cave. Santos ducked his head as he trailed behind Lenora, entering her personal lair. He was surprised to realize that he hadn't been in her space since they came to camp and that somehow seemed significant. Lenora had made the cave her home. The floor was covered in animal pelts, and although he couldn't feel it given his state, Santos remembered that the walls would be warm with thermal rock, and with the way the cave snaked around before bellying out to the main
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