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21. Research

In this house, there is no sunlight to wake you up. In fact, you will not know the time of the day if you don't have a clock. Thankfully, Lysander has one in his room and it is nine in the morning and I smell breakfast! I was so eager to run to the kitchen, I forgot the werewolf lying on my stomach.

My face warmed up as I recalled the events of last night. Brushing a hand through his hair, I poked his cheek to wake him up. "Lysander. Wake up. There's food."

"Hmmp." He mumbled, hiding under the blanket.

"I will push you off this bed if you don't get up right now."

"You can't." The damn werewolf is awake.

"I can't? Are you sure?"

"Yes." He trapped me in between his arms and moved up so we're face to face. He licked his lips and bit my neck. "Besides, everything I want to eat is here."

I closed my eyes and arched my back before rolling under him quickly. I found my clothes on the floor by the bed and put them on. Lysander sent me a scowl as I looked at him. "Love you, puppy." I threw him his shirt before running out of the room.

In the kitchen, I did not see a Rami, but the food and coffee are there on the table. I'm not sure Rami has eaten yet because there are three plates prepared and the food look untouched. I then decided to check his room but all I saw was his undone bed and stuff all over the floor.

I continued walking to the second hall and found Rami in the library, sitting on a chair with a coffee on the table beside him. "Good morning." I greeted, taking a seat in the middle of the room.

Rami narrowed his eyes at me. "I hope you know that these walls are thin and not soundproof. Hope you had fun last night."

"Oh." I'd like for the Earth to swallow me down now. "I'm so sorry."

"See, you were pretty loud but Lysander." He cringed. "He -- "

"What are you reading?"

Rami smirked but went along as I changed the topic. "Vampires." He took the seat across from me and set the book on the table between us. "I was just curious about how they are immortal. They aren't, really. We know they can be killed by a wooden or silver stake pierced through the heart. But they are the hardest to kill, before werewolves. See, werewolves can be killed with anything, as long as their hearts are damaged. But for vampires, it can't just be anything. It has to be wood or silver. If those things are not used, they just heal themselves over and over."

"That's great and awful at the same time."

"Yeah, right? Imagine all five massive extinctions and every supernatural beings who can't die easily going through the same thing? Like, 'Oh, everyone but us is dying again? Great.'" Rami giggled. "Imagine if they have to live with aliens next?"

"I will be so jealous that they get to see aliens and we don't." I flipped through the previous pages of the book and saw a chapter about the biology of vampires. I need to learn this. If I'm going to help Idris make a cure for his clan about allowing them to walk under the sun again, I need to understand how their body works. I can't fix something if I don't understand it. "Rami, would you like to be my lovely assistant in creating a cure for vampires?"

Rami scrunched his nose. "Vampires? Hmm.. What's in it for me?"

"You win best person of the year?"

"Or, you tell your vampire friend to become my slave and work for me. You know, like when I want some Chinese food and I'm too lazy to leave my house, I'll just ring a bell and they'll bring it for me?"