minibrush, her lip gloss, her water bottle, and her earrings. ★思★兔★在★線★閱★讀★

Damon shook his head, but didn’t stop her until she began

fumbling with a lapis and diamond pendant Stefan had given her. She

was crying as she tried to disengage the clasp when suddenly the last bit

of the rope around her wrist came up short.

“No more,” Damon said. “You don’t understand anything. We

haven’t even entered the city proper yet. Why don’t you have a look at

the architecture instead of worrying about useless brats who’re likely to

die anyway?”

“That’s cold,” Elena said, but she couldn’t think of any way to

make him understand, and she was too angry with him to try.

Still, she stopped fumbling with the chain and looked beyond the

slums as Damon had suggested. There she could see a breathtaking

skyline, with buildings that seemed meant to last for eternity, made of

stones that looked the way the Egyptian pyramids and Mayan ziggurats

must have looked when they were new. Everything, though, was colored

red and black by a sun now concealed by sullen crimson cloudbanks.

That huge red sun—it gave the air a different look for different moods.

At times it seemed almost romantic, glinting on a large river Elena and

Damon passed, pick