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she could ride the bike through the fires of the sun or the icy mountains of
Pluto.
But she knew she would not survive the sun. It would not be the heat that
would kill her. It would be the light. She knew she was dead. She also knew
that exposing herself to the light of the sun would change her to her "real"
condition.
One of her more spiritual instructors back at the Committee had described the
sun as "God's eye" and said that nothing could deceive the eye of God.
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She also considered just staying out in the open as the sun rose. She knew
that her soul was clean now and that she would be judged on her life and not
on what she had become.
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At least that's what she thought Ginger had told her, but she also knew that
suicide was a sin and that she could not take her own life. She cursed the
irony because she knew that the longer she survived, the more likely she would
truly become a monster and that would condemn her as well.
As she drove, she considered that the irony was one all humans faced. If
people died before they able to formulate a concept of right or wrong they
would certainly go to heaven.
This would save them from the stain of evil acts that they might commit as
adults, but it would also rob the world of the potential good that they might
do as well. No, everyone had to fulfill his or her own destiny. Everyone faced
challenges.
Kit's challenge was that she was a vampire. She would have to deal with it.
She also considered that her sense of logic was being distorted by her need to
survive. Maybe it wasn't suicide to destroy herself because she was
technically already dead. She turned the idea over in her mind a few hundred
times and then banished it from her consciousness. It would do her no good to
constantly second guess herself. She had decided to survive. That was that.
As morning approached, she drove the bike out into the sandy barren landscape
away from the highway. She found a small drainage ditch that had a steel pipe
that cut under a small hill. She dumped the bike into the ditch and filled one
end of the tube with sand and dirt. With her new strength it
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did not take her longer than a few minutes. She crawled into the open end of
the pipe and crawled to the filled end and curled up.
She waited the sun's appearance and felt it as it crested the horizon. She
felt herself slipping into unconsciousness.
Her last thought was to wonder what vampire's dreamt about.
She wondered if David would visit her in such a dream.
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Kit woke precisely at sunset and was thankful that vampires did not seem to
dream at all. If she could not feel the sun sinking with her mind, she
actually would have believed that no time had passed at all. She felt none of
the grogginess or minor aches and pains that she usually felt when usually
woke up. She rather felt exactly as she had the night before. She felt
perfect.
She climbed out of the pipe while the sky was still blood red from the sun.
She was sad that she would never again see a clear blue sky, that she would
never feel the warmth of the sun on her face again. She retrieved the bike and
got moving. She knew she had a lot to do and little time to do it.
Her clothes were filthy and stinking. She still had traces of blood on her and
she stunk too. She had to find clothing and she had to find a shower.
She was close to Lubbock, so she knew that a shower would not be hard to find.
She knew there had to be some kind of college that kept its gym open into the
evening. She could blend in and find a shower there. Clothing was another
question.
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As she got close to the small city, she spotted a trailer park. She headed for
it and skirted it until she found what she wanted. For some reason, perhaps
laziness, perhaps some emergency, someone had left clothing on a line outside
one of the trailers. She found some women's clothing that, while two or three
sizes too large, would at least protect her modesty until something more
suitable could be found.
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She headed into town and found signs pointing to the local campus. It was an
easy thing to find a gym with a women's locker room. Though there were guards
and attendants to keep the coeds safe from intruders, she found it was a
simple thing to push their attention away from her with her mind.
She bathed and changed into the baggy clothing in a matter of minutes.
It was then an easy task to find a mall and use some of
Bull's cash to buy herself some clothing that fit. She was frugal in her
shopping decision, because she knew she had to stretch Bull's money as far as
she could. It was a fair amount of money, but it would have to last.
Fortunately, she would not have any meal or lodging expenses. Unfortunately,
she had no idea what expenses she would encounter in the day, weeks, months
and years that were to follow.
As she pulled out of town, she thought she might soon come back and buy an
acre or two of the dust town. Who knows, maybe in a hundred years or so,
someone might actually be interested in buying it from her. She thought about
David and the vampire that attacked him. Money had been a big part of why she
had chosen him. She was beginning to understand that now. She wished she had
some
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of David's fortune right now. Money was definitely going to be a problem. It
wasn't like there was a booming market for vampires in the current economy
right now.
Until that very moment, she had not considered her destination at all. She
pulled into a gas station to fill up and checked some of the local maps. She
realized just how big a place Texas was. It was still early and she could hit
almost any city in the State, so she really had her pick. She even thought
about Arkansas and Missouri, but decided to stick with Texas.
Many of her chat friends were from Texas, so she knew a little about the
state. It was interesting how so many D/s chatters were from Texas. Maybe it
was just that it was such a large state, but it still seemed odd. She noticed
the cities of
San Antonio and Austin. She had three friends from that area.
From the description they gave her, it was an area she could blend into.
She plotted a course and powered her motorcycle. She noticed that the hunger
in her stomach was continuing to grow slowly but steadily. Was this what her
life was now?
Dodging the sun and hunting her next meal.
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Chapter 20
David sat in his room and contemplated omniscience. He had come to the
conclusion that knowing the future was a terrible burden. He remembered
debates that he had in philosophy classes regarding freewill and determinism.
He had always argued the freewill position, mainly because it was harder to
do. David was naturally argumentative and would always take the harder side in
arguments.
He wished he knew then what he knew now. He was, in fact, correct about free
will. Yes, there were determinate factors that essentially limited your
actions, sometimes completely, but free will played a big factor in how things
worked out. What it all boiled down to was probability, what was likely? What
was possible? What were the long shots?
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