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To all the readers who loved Davy frouys are a patient I truly hope you’ll love the conclusion

They started the chanting again, and I closed my eyes before I bent my forehead to rest onfor six months now, or so it seemed I had tried to keep count, but every day melted into the next Some of the times when I would wake, I didn’t know if it was the same day or a different one There were six flies instead of two on the sandwich some vampire slid into uessed that an entire day had gone by With every day, the flies multiplied in numbers Tomorrow there would be twelve or fourteen

“There, there, no appetite for the huer?”

Lucan squatted next to my head outside my cell He wrapped a hand around one of the bars and bent low to peer into my eyes

I didn’t flinch or look away “I’m still human, Lucan”

“No, you aren’t You would’ve been dead a long tio”

I sighed It was the only thing I could do Tiet excited, as human as he ever was, and he’d stand by for The Immortal thread It had been his plan since I turned hiet it He really thought he could be the next thread-holder; he refused to believe there would be no more thread-holders It was only The Immortal now I had tried to explain this to him, but since there was no lore about The Immortal, he never believed me

And then one day, I grew tired of the torture, and said to him, “Do you miss him?”

Lucan grew still beside me He loved to sit beside ht they would break me, when the thread would join him, but it never happened He still sat beside me every day

“You two look so much alike”

“Shut up”

I thought it would take more for his reaction “Roane is all about duty He’s sworn to protect people who he feels are right no ainst”

“Shut up,” he snarled again

“He’ll come after you, you know”

Lucan shot to his feet, but he didn’t go anywhere He didn’t leave He didn’t threaten He just stood there and waited