It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a…

Jonathan Stroud
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It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)
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