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“Somebody texted me,” Saber lied, and Lozen watched her face.
“Who?”
“Rex.”
“Then why didn’t you say anything when I got here?”
“Lozen, what exactly are you accusing me of?”
Lozen took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
“You’ve changed.”
“You haven’t known me that long. I’ve just been in a weird mood.”
“Bullshit, you changed after you went to the last party. You won’t tell me anything. You’re distant. I think you know something or youdidsomething.”
“I didn’tdoanything,” Saber snapped.
“So you saw something or heard something,” Lozen said. “Please don’t lie to me, Saber, I’m not a fucking idiot.”
Saber closed her eyes.
“You don’t want to know what I saw.”
Lozen got up.
“I have to go,” she said. “I can’t sit here and—”
Saber felt tears spring to her eyes.
“I thought I saw avampire, ok?”
Lozen stood staring at her. Her mouth fell open like she might speak, but she didn’t.
“So I’ve been hanging out with this old man I met in the woods trying to figure out what I really saw, but maybe I’m going fucking crazy, ok?”
“What? What old man? Wait, what do you mean ‘vampire’?”
Lozen looked genuinely stunned.
Saber put her face in her hands and took a deep breath.
“The old man is just this guy who found all these dead animals and knew something weird was going on. I thought I saw a vampire at the party so I went tohimbecause I thought he would believe me. I told you you wouldn’t want to know! Now you think I’m crazy!”
Lozen sat down and looked at her with a strange, crooked smile.
“Finally,” she said, “an explanation that makes a little sense.”
“So you believe me?”
Lozen shrugged.
“Do you really believe that’s what you saw?”
“It’s definitely what IthinkI saw, but who knows? The mind plays tricks.”
Saber told her everything she remembered from the Halloween party.
