Mansfield With Monsters (2012)
“Perhaps her first real prey was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with her new blood-kin, the Sheridan girls and their brother. She sat back in her own little corner of it, and the bolster on which her cold hand rested pulsed like the wrist of an unknown young man; and away they bowled, past waltzing lamp-posts and houses and fences and trees, the whole night alive to her new vampiric eyes.
“Have you really never been to a ball before, Leila? But, my child, how too weird—” ...cried the Sheridan girls.
“Our nearest neighbour was fifteen miles,” said Leila softly, gently opening and shutting her fan.
Oh dear, how hard it was to be indifferent like the others! She tried not to smile too much; to hide her fangs behind patient lips. But every single thing was so new and exciting… Meg’s tuberoses, Jose’s long loop of amber, Laura’s little dark head, pushing above her white fur like a flower through snow.MoreLess
“Have you really never been to a ball before, Leila? But, my child, how too weird—” ...cried the Sheridan girls.
“Our nearest neighbour was fifteen miles,” said Leila softly, gently opening and shutting her fan.
Oh dear, how hard it was to be indifferent like the others! She tried not to smile too much; to hide her fangs behind patient lips. But every single thing was so new and exciting… Meg’s tuberoses, Jose’s long loop of amber, Laura’s little dark head, pushing above her white fur like a flower through snow.MoreLess
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