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Rory stroked her cheek. Russell lifted her slightly and rolled her onto her back. He lay down on top of her, and Em knew he was shifting back to furry, but she didn’t actually feel it happen as the world went black around her.

Chapter 5
     
    Salt glared at them. “You fucked her into oblivion, but couldn’t bother to wake me up to participate?”
    “You were out cold, Salt,” replied Rory. “Em literally screamed and it didn’t wake you up.”
    “How is it that she can stay awake for days and nights, and I can’t seem to open my eyes until the sun goes down once I’m asleep? She is not that much older than me.”
    “Em had the blood of three different vampires in her veins. One of them was hundreds of years old. Her age doesn’t matter as much as the age of her three makers. If you want to get technical, she is now older than me.”
    “What do you mean?” asked Russell.
    “A vampire’s age is measured three ways. One is how old you are when you were turned. The second is the age of the vampire that turned you. If two humans are turned at age thirty, but one of them is turned by a vampire that is a hundred and the other by a vampire that is only fifty, it changes their age. The one turned by the one hundred-year-old has now gained the strength and stamina of that vampire, where the younger vampire is weaker. Joel was almost two hundred, I am almost two hundred and Vidar was over four hundred, that gives Em a combined life fluid that has over eight hundred years of experience and strength.”
    “Holy shit,” grumbled Salt. “If that is the case, then I should be stronger also because she had already been with you and Joel before she turned me.”
    “It doesn’t work that way exactly. When a human is changed, at first our enzymes work quickly in their bodies. After that initial internal death of their organs, they change more slowly. The blood then takes a while to actually reconstruct the cell structure so that each cell can be kept viable with our life fluid. It takes over a year for that complete metamorphosis to happen. Em had two different vampire enzymes in her body during that time. The melding of those fluids takes much longer, although the vampire doesn’t notice anything after the initial reaction. It has been speculated that it can take up to five years for the dissimilar enzymes to finally calm into one solid entity. It will be far longer for Em because of Vidar’s enzymes, but that is off the point. When Em changed you, her life fluid was still unsettled, possibly even more so because she drank from Gaelic. That is a completely different matter though, because Gaelic’s fluid was so similar to Joel’s. Anyway. What she gave you had not altered into its final form, so it turned you, but without giving you the ability to completely control your hunger. You are stronger and faster than a normal newling vampire, but still not as much as Em.”
    Salt grunted. “So I will always be less than her?”
    “Is that a problem? We are all less than her. We always will be. By rights, everyone in these caves and probably most of the vampires on earth are less than her. She is also still changing and becoming stronger with each passing night.”
    Russell frowned. “So why did she react so badly to not feeding? Shouldn’t she be able to go weeks without eating?”
    “I fear it has been many weeks since she has. She also needs new blood to promote the existing cells to go to work to finish her transformation. They tend to go stagnant when we don’t eat. That is not normally a problem, but for Em it is. There were also outside factors to this. Stress weakens our life fluid, so does strenuous exercise and lack of sleep. Everything she has been doing is making her weaker and starving herself was the straw that could have broken the camel’s back.”
    “How the hell do you know all this stuff, Rory?” asked Salt.
    Rory got up and went to their library. There was only one book that he had made sure to