"Okay. Not looking. But its not like, hamburger, zombie movie bad is it?" She'd seen her share of horror movies, she knew what victims looked like after they'd been slashed. "Because it would really, really suck to bleed out because of a pack of crazy monkeys went Freddie Kruger on my back, you know?"

She told herself the shiver was probably shock setting in, and didn't have anything to do with the way his hand moved over her skin. Nothing whatsoever.

"We should probably get out of the hallway, too, before someone comes by and asks entirely too many questions about the bow."