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This place uses a key code. Most are smarter now.

You call them up, sound like you work there, and ask for the key code. In you go.

The private donation center is quiet at night. You pad to the freezers and take what you need. Yarrk follows you, big head swinging back and forth looking for trouble, but there's no one here. For the past few years, this has gotten harder every time you've done it…but this time is easy. Too easy? You can't think about that now. You drink deep.

Bagged blood tastes like nothing, and you sometimes feel less healthy than other vampires, subsisting on the stuff so often. Doing this used to be safer and smarter than running meth heads down in an alley or skulking around goth clubs trying to pick up groupies, but now access is locked down and almost impossible. Surviving as a "bagger" is still possible, but it won't be easy.

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