A/N: Hi..... Cough!
Readers. It seems like I caught a cold. Nothing serious, just the universe deciding that this particular week was a good time to remind me that I am, in fact, a biological entity with vulnerabilities.
I can't write the main chapters for a while. My head is doing the thing where it feels like it's been filled with wet cotton and all my good ideas are somewhere on the other side of that cotton, just out of reach.
But I had this Omake planned for a while and it seemed like as good a time as any.
Fair warning. This is an alternate universe. Nothing here is canon to the main story. Consider it a window into a road not taken.
..... Enjoy. Cough.
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OMake — THE OTHER ROAD
(An alternate universe. Valerian never gets involved in the ritual. Five bloodlines, never. The PTSD from a certain red-haired vampire woman..... also never. He is, by every available metric, a normal college student in New Orleans. More or less.)
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