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  ed bodiless spirits and warnings against improper
  burials. there wasn't much that souhe movies i'd seen, and
  only a very few, like the hebreolish upier, who were
  even preoccupied with drinking blood.
  ories really caught my attention: the romanian varacolaci, a
  powerful undead being who could appear as a beautiful, pale-skinned
  human, the slovak nelapsi, a creature s and fast it could
  massatire village in the sier midnight, and one
  other, the stregoni benefici.
  about this last there was only oence.
  stregoni benefi italiao be on the side of
  goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires.
  it was a relief, that ohe oh amo
  claimed the existenpires.
  overall, though, there was little that cided with jacob's stories or
  my owions. i'd made a little y mind as i'd read
  and carefully pared it with each myth. speed, strey, pale
  ski shift d then jacob's criteria: blood drinkers,
  ehe werewolf, ed, and immortal. there were very few
  myths that mat oor.
  aher problem, o i'd remembered from the small number
  of scary movies that i'd seen and by today's reading —
  vampires 't e out iime, the sun would buro a
  der. they slept in s all day a only at night.
  aggravated, i she puter's maiot waiting
  to shut things dowhrough my irritatio
  embarrassment. it was all so stupid. i was sitting in my room,
  researg vampires. ith me? i decided that most of the
  blame belohe doorstep of the town of forks — aire
  sodden olympisula, for that matter.
  i had to get out of the house, but there ahat
  didn't ihree-day drive. i pulled on my boots anyway, unclear
  where i was headed, aairs. i shrugged into my raincoat
  without g the ed out the door.
  it was overcast, but n yet. i igrud started east
  on foot, angling across charlie's yard toward the ever-eng
  forest. it didn't take long till i enough for the house and the
  road to be ihe only souhe squish of the damp
  earth uhe suddehe jays.
  there was a thin ribbon of a trail that led through the forest here, or i
  wouldn't risk wandering on my owhis. my sense of dire was
  hopeless; i could get lost in much less helpful surroundirail
  wound deeper ahe forest, mostly east as far as i could
  tell. it snaked arouka sprud the hemlocks, the yews and
  the maples. i ohe he trees around me, and all
  i knew was due to charlie poio me from the cruiser window
  ihere were many i didn't know, and others i 't be
  sure about because they were sreen parasites.
  i followed the trail as long as my a myself pushed me forward. as
  that started to ebb, i slos of moisture tri
  the e, but i 't be if it was beginning to
  rain or if it ly pools left over from yesterday, held high in the
  leaves above me, sl their way back to the earth. a retly
  fallen tree — i k was ret because it wasirely carpeted in
  mairunk of oers, g a
  sheltered little bench just a few safe feet off the trail. i stepped over
  the ferns and sat carefully, making sure my jacket was between the damp
  seat and my clothes wherever they toud leaned my hooded head back
  agairee.
  this was the wroo have e. i should have known, but where
  else was there to go? the forest green and far too much like the
  s last night's dream to allow for peaind. now that there
  was he sound of my soggy footsteps, the silence ierg.
  the birds were quiet, too, the dr in frequenust
  be raihe ferns stood higher thahat i was
  seated, and i knew someone could walk by ohree feet aw