Essence of the Living
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Chuuya meets Dazai at a party celebrating Mori Ougai’s ascension as master of the city, a move which every vampire in attendance is very politely pretending didn’t require the murder of the previous master in cold blood. One second Chuuya is tucked into a corner nursing a glass of AB positive and carefully avoiding eye contact with anyone else at the party, the next a human teenager is scaring his undead heart almost to beating again.
“You’re not like the other ones,” says Dazai.
“What the fuck?” Chuuya replies.
In which Nakahara Chuuya, a 97-year-old vampire, meets Dazai Osamu, a 14-year-old human, and their lives become irrevocably intertwined.
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- Part 1 of Essence of the Living
- Part 5 of zimriya sampler (author’s favorites)