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- What are you, what are you? – tightly hugging his beloved, the young man asked.

She wanted to tell him about her fears, to ask him to be by his side, but inappropriately she completely remembered the animal eyes on a human face, remembered the predatory claws and death rattle, and escaped from her lips:

“Tamir, if I were reborn as a walker, would you… be able to… kill me?”

He looked surprised, but then laughed.

“Stupid, you will never walk, I won’t let you,” he kissed the curly top of her head and began to cradle the girl like a child.

This was not the answer Eilish was expecting. And I realized with bitterness: if something goes wrong - like Lesana, Tamir's hand will not tremble ...

* * *

Since that time, the healer apprentice seemed to have been replaced.

The daughter of the Medenich family froze. With cold indifference, she did everything that the mentors ordered. There were no more refusals, questions, tears. They confidently cut the girl's hands of the body, washed the ab