Changeling: Zombie Dawn

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remembering how Lucien had given it to him that first time they’d met, telling him to put it on and revealing that it had been his father’s. It was this that enabled Trey to take on the upright, bipedal werewolf form he’d become accustomed to – a powerful, thinking creature rather than the terrifying four-legged nether-creature known as the Wolfen. He’d experienced what it was like to be in that particular werewolf form before when he’d Changed with the Pack in the Canadian forest, and he knew that as a Wolfen he could be a danger to the world and himself.
    ‘It isn’t as if my life changed the moment you walked into that care home, Lucien. Caliban had already murdered my parents and tried to have me killed when I was a baby, and he isn’t going to stop until either he or I are dead. I’m lucky to have made it this far.’ He shrugged in his guardian’s direction. ‘Besides, you saved me too, remember? If you hadn’t come that day, I’d have been killed in the fire. I figure we’re quits on that score.’
    Trey realized that he hadn’t had a chance to talk like this with his guardian for some time. It was strange, but Lucien always had a way of making Trey feel OK about whatever lay ahead, as if the teenager were able to draw from the vampire’s own power and confidence. He smiled at the thought that his world was a less scary place with a vampire around, and the smile slipped from his face as Lucien’s face was replaced by Caliban’s in his mind.
    ‘Tom tells me that you were considering leaving us.’
    ‘That’s not quite what I said.’ Trey couldn’t shake the mental image of Lucien’s evil brother out of his head.
    As if reading the young man’s thoughts, his guardian nodded. ‘You are more formidable than you think, and soon you will have a chance to unleash your powers and fulfil your destiny, Trey.’
    There was a pause and Trey looked into Lucien’s eyes, something that was never easy to do. ‘You’re talking about the legend again, aren’t you?’
    ‘I’m merely suggesting that not going to Leroth will do nothing to remove the threat against you. You can choose not to go, but sooner or later Caliban will catch up with you, maybe in Leroth and maybe not. Your destinies are linked, like the twisted strands of your own DNA, and you can either meet that destiny head-on or wait for it to find you.’
    Trey considered this. ‘I can run but I can’t hide, is that it?’
    ‘Something like that, yes.’
    ‘That’s what I thought.’
    ‘I want you to know that I will not allow anything to happen to you, Trey. I will protect you like my own son. You must believe that.’
    Trey studied the creature before him. He nodded his head. ‘I do believe that, Lucien.’
    The teenager stood up and turned to go, stopping at the door to face his guardian one more time. ‘Thanks,’ he said. A grin slowly crept on to his face. ‘Oh, and by the way, the suntan thing,’ he said, pointing. ‘It suits you. Makes you look less . . . dead.’
    ‘I shall bear that in mind.’ Lucien looked down at the papers on his desk, but Trey caught the amused expression on his face as he did so.
    He stepped out, closing the door behind him.
    Now all he needed to do was straighten things out with Alexa.

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    The communication console next to the door beeped three times, and Alexa tapped the touch screen to answer it, noting that it was the front desk calling. She glanced across at the grill where the ham and cheese sandwich she was making for her breakfast was cooking.
    ‘Hello?’
    One of the guards on duty that morning spoke. ‘Excuse me, Miss Charron, but there’s a young lady in reception asking to see Mr Laporte. She says she’s a friend of his.’
    Alexa felt her insides clench. ‘Let me guess,’ she said. ‘Blonde? Tall? Scarily blue eyes with a slight “desperate” look to them?’
    There was a pause at the other end, and when the guard spoke again his embarrassment was evident in his voice.

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