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Prologue

Halloween 2014

Alaric

“Thank you for traveling the long distance to be here,” Mr Graf says, standing and shakingth Froely, despite growing up with very little to eat, I still had an unnatural strength and size

“Thank you for the opportunity, Mr Graf I aged out of the group home and they didn’t have any work forYou savedleft without hope is devasting I should second guess the generosity, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth

As if reading hts, “Once a year, I find candidates that coive the you will do just that Are the accommodations at the complex sufficient?”

“More than I’ve ever had, sir Thank you”

“Enough, you need not thank orous, but you see and enjoy the festival” He sends me out with a handful of cash to spend, so I reluctantly leave and enjoy the day I don’t know anybody and don’t feel likeanyone new just yet, so I paystuff than those passing around me

I spot a teenage girl who glares atover her shoulder contrasting her pale skin She can’t bein fact Well except for the staring at me like I kicked her cat or some shit I should ask her what I did to make her upset Instead, I decide it’s better to not even address her, so I walk around with rass under a tree Tomen come by, and both of them take a seat “Hello, I’m Tammy, and this is my best friend, Trish”

“Hello, I’ down my plate on my lap and shake their hands

“Wohat a cool na?”

“I’ot a job in town”

“Well, that’s great to hear that you’re going to be hanging around town” They sirls are cute I suppose, but I’m not interested My life needs to be a little stable before I look for a girl We avethe women with suspicion I couldn’t take my eyes off her I excuse irl’s proble dark when I spot her again She’s in line for the Ferris wheel, so I cut in line to stand at her side “I’er You are?”

“Allegra and annoyed Don’t you have some bimbos to talk to?”