The next morning the Blood Dancers were waiting outside the room with a copy of Tracii, ready to meet their new Lamia cousins. There wasn't any actual relationship between them, but Cain had made the Blood Dancers, so they felt like his adopted children, whereas the Lamia Progenitors were his biological children. In their estimation, that made them cousins.
"But Mom, do we have to get up? It's so bright and loud outside. How about we just nap for another two, no three hours first? That should be fine, right?" The girls complained while the Blood Dancers outside the room laughed.
"No, it is time to get up and exercise. You need to do it to grow up big and strong, you can't just sleep all day." Cyrene corrected them.
Fine, but can we eat first? I'm starving." Renee asked, giving her best pleading look.
"Only a light meal or you will be sluggish during your training," Tracii called through the door.
