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Even though I spent every spare time I had in improving my mistress of the vamp’s super-heightened powers and psyching myself up in every available opportunity I could find, doing everything I could to prepare myself for the last test----I soon came to the horrible realization that to actually apply those methods while trying not to scream in fright was more easier said than done.    Especially when you’re inside a cold, dark, cave with not even the tiniest flicker of light to punctuate the thick, shroud of darkness that surrounded everything around me. When the cold, bitter wind bith through my skin, making my entire body shake, my teeth chattering so badly they had the danger of breaking to pieces, not to mention the occasional sensation of something small and rubbery rubbing against the back of my arm.

But worst than all of that is the knowledge that I was alone, in the kind of place and situation I feared the most:  in  a dark, confined space and limitless darkness that leaches your life’s energy.

No, the Proctors had seen to that.

The purpose of this last, and final test was to overcome the examiner’s greatest fear.

And thanks to the magical foresight the diviner they hired possessed, they were able to arrange this particular unfortunate scenario for the said examiner right on top of the alpine mountains.

I was to endure this personal nightmare for only one hour.

A magical enchantment that clings to the cave will be lifted of its own accord and I would be able to emerge from the cave unscathed.

Again, this was more easier said than done, because every single second that passes seems to stresth endlessly long for me.

Mark was outraged as soon as he learned this, and nearly ripped out the throat of one of the older proctors who announced the test if David and Allen didn’t stop him.

As a punishment, the proctors tied Mark on one of the stone walls with a pair of silver shackles on his wrists and feet.

Which, according to David, scorches a vampire’s skin.

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