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"Who were you talking to?"

I thought about lying then decided not to, jerking a hand toward the door instead.

She frowned still smiling though. "What?"

"The door. The doors talk around here."

"They do?"

"Yes, we do," Pyne replied sassily. "What do you think, sexy vampire?"

Kayla laughed, surprised by Pyne swinging himself against her. She entered and stood on the other side to look at his face.

"Wow that's something I have never seen in all my life."

"Magic doors," I supplied. I was nervous. Now that it's all over and we've rested a little I needed to know where we stood. I know, we just finished a battle and all that and I should be more concerned about mourning the dead and thinking about where to go from here. But when you've had a brush with death more than once, you tend not to think about the past, you only care about how to move on and was exactly what I was doing.

Kayla laughed again, raising slender fingers to touch Pyne who seemed to enjoy her touch. He even gave me a triump