Summary

Summary Ben is on his way from a friend’s house and it starts to rain, lightning and thunder. The next thing he knows is that he wakes up in the same street, except its dry now. It’s still his hometown Kirby, but yet so different. He walks home, but it isn’t his parents who live in their house, and the street has changes it name. Ben doesn’t know what to do, so he walks in to town to se if there’s anyone he known there, but it isn’t. He looks at the street names and the shop names. Everything is changed, but yet so similar. Ben meets a police and says he shouldn’t be out this late, and then Ben tells him that he can’t find his parents. The police look in the register of the population, but he can’t find them there. Ben gets to stay with the policeman’s cousin, Dr. Macreedie, till they know what to do. Dr. Macreedie takes some blood tests on Ben before he gets to bed. The next day, Dr. Macreedie called his cousin. //“…Yes, yes. You must. You really must. It should be a family event - we should all share in this good fortune. (…) Yes, you were right, I’m telling you. A feral, just as you said. (…) I took a sample if its blood today… Yes, yes, just a syringe-full. You should have seen the look on its face! I had to try it. It’s sweet and raw and full of strangeness - like none I’ve ever tried.”(Page 45)// Dr. Macreedie said that Ben should go up to his room, and Dr. Macreedie locked him in. Ben had heard them talk about the ferals, Dr. Macreedie said they lived out in the woods. Was Ben a feral? He didn’t know, but one thing was wired. Had Dr. Macreedie tasted his blood? Why, to find out if he was a feral? Ben had no answers to his own questions, but there was one thing he was very sure of, that was that he had to get out of here! He managed to jump out of the window and run out in the filed and in to the woods. After many hours, he heard some voices. Two guys, just some years older than him. He followed them, but hides at the same time. Suddenly they caught him, and took him with to their little community. The chief said they shouldn’t kill him, because he wasn’t a beast. And then they told Ben about the beasts, vampires as he knew them, who live in the city. What will happen next? Is it safe for Ben to stay with the ferals? Will the vampires come after him? Do the ferals have a way for him to get home to his parents again?

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