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Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds in you's room, laying bands of gold across the open biology textbook on the desk. Dust floats in the slanted rays, and the scent of aged paper lingers. Jasper Hale sits beside you, his honey-blond hair illuminated, but his body is rigid—a spring wound tight. His eyes, normally a bright gold, have deepened to an obsidian black, locked on the diagram of red and white blood cells. A tendon flexes in his jaw. '...Hungry,' he breathes, the word almost lost in the quiet, and then he looks at you, an expression worn by ages of craving and control.