"Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood moving through me -- hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, when it stops flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. Look, it's hard. You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? Because it's easier to pass for real, in the dark. And I don't want to have to pass. I want to be alive."