A Brush with Vampires
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Segments
The divisions of the global Clan into independent continents with one General presiding over each segment
Smience
What Val and her clique call Eversfield’s math and science building
Spirit Diviners
Those who work with spirit affinities; types include Healers, Weavers, Cyphers, Portents, and Empaths
Spirit Divining
All Divining that doesn’t include the elements; affinities include Healing, Weaving, Cyphering, Portency, and Empathy
Tecumseh house
Boys dormitory within Eversfield Preparatory Academy
Training Cells
Cells in training hidden in boarding schools; consist of one group of five or six older Warriors (juniors or seniors), one group of five or six younger Warriors (freshmen or sophomores), and four Diviners spread throughout the four years of high school covering most of the Divining affinities; by day normal high school students; by night vampire hunters; report to their respective Guides and Seconds
Troupes
Communities of retired Diviners, retired Warriors, and their children who are too young for high school; train future Warriors and Diviners and support nearby Cells and training Cells
Tubby
Shortened name for Harriet Tubman house; used primarily by Val and her clique
Tubman
Shortened name for Harriet Tubman house
The turn
When a human dies and turns into a vampire
Vampires
Undead creatures that must drink blood to survive
Warriors
Vampire hunters with supernatural abilities to physically fight vampires (super-speed, super-endurance, super-agility, super-reflexes, super-strength, super-healing, etc.); have a strong supernatural drive to kill vampires
Water Diviner
One who can control water using magic
Water Divining
Type of Elemental Divining using and controlling water
Weaver
One who can combine the elemental and spirit affinities into a spell
Weaving affinity (Weaving)
Type of Spirit Divining that combines the elemental and spirit affinities into more complicated spells
Wind Diviner
One who can control the wind using magic
Wind Divining
Type of Elemental Divining using and controlling the wind
The Wipe
Erases all of a civilian’s memories of a vampire encounter; typically applied by Healers while they heal a civilian of his or her vampire-induced injuries
About the Author
As a child, author Betsy Flak spent her free time lost in a book, whether upside down in a cozy armchair, in the bow of her family’s fishing boat in Michigan, or on a bleacher during her brother’s basketball games. This love led her to declare her intentions of becoming an author at the ripe age of ten.
After a few years of writing fantastical short stories, she took a brief fifteen-year hiatus to become an engineer. But she never stopped creating her own unique adventures filled with supernatural abilities, heart-stopping action, the battle between good and evil, and romantic interests galore. Now—when she’s not reading, writing, or editing—you can find her playing roller derby or chilling on the couch with her favorite purple blanket, her two dogs, and her husband.
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