This story overlaps with the second half of Kateesha's and takes place in 1868.

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Jorick pulled his horse to a stop and surveyed the small farm house. Though he wasn't a tracker, he'd hunted enough of his fellow vampires to parody the skill, especially where Kateesha was concerned. How many years had he known her? He didn't want to figure it up, but instinctively knew it was more than two hundred. In that time, he'd grown to understand how she worked, ...