Elisa;+, /(a ha##%lf-hum\;an
,-%] half-vam/p**ir
e girl,/ b^_e^?lieves the Loc@khart t+ 
riplets ;are the o%nly!( people in t?$`@he world! she can [[`truly trust. S;\he wants to become human for them—and sp=
end for)^ever wi+.th o.=/[ne of them.@;
But everything chang+
_es when  ,) Ambe .r, the maid’%#s daughter, app ears !. Agai::!n and again, E/]
lisa is -abandoned, hum
iliated, a ,nd
* st.!r !^_ipped of he,/!r dignity*. A/l)!l for Ambe^_r/. Fi)=nally,%
 /+ s.\ he decides to let
! go and a `[ccept her fate #:\: leav:!in).?g day sc
hoo])/) l behin^_d, tra nsferring to ]]night school%- +,  and becoming
a vampi \re.
B^` ,$ut wh\?`en ?$Elisa! appe[\,ars.` in her )night[ scho%(ol un-@-
iform, held in the %arm s of a powerful vampire he@`ir, why do the $\
trip-#$*le./ts wh+^o once threw her away sudden\=ly fall =$\into r^egre$)#%t and @(-panic#/+—kneel]/ing ]%before her( , begging for  f#! orgiv,en(=`es:]
s?