It was meant to be an ordinary hunt. Sam certainly hadn’t set out with a mind to kill a young child that night. Her usual quarry was strong young men who could run fast and put up a spirited fight, not little girls who would freeze and whimper at the first sign of trouble. In fact she had never actually killed a child before. But some things are a matter of survival, and if the path of a vampire and that of a youngling happened to intersect, whether intended or otherwise, then the youngling had to be sacrificed to the.
