but considering what I could do, it didn’t seem appropriate.

The trip was uneventful, and just entering holy ground made me relax. Vampires are perfectly capable of entering churches and killing there, but there’s just something about holy ground that makes you feel like nothing bad can ever happen there.

“Stay sharp,” Mack said.

He was right. Safety was just as much an illusion here as anywhere else. I let my vision drift into aura sight, and I glanced around.

Places can have auras just like people, but most don’t. Generally it takes strong emotion to leave an aura in a place. The more the emotion, the brighter the aura. That’s why certain places feel safe or give you the creeps. Even though normal people can’t see auras the way I can, they can still s...

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