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Summary of the previous episodes:
Viorel has been tortured by his
supposed family who wanted to have him burn in the sun. Strangely
enough the sun didn't burn him as expected but Viorel has no memory of
who he is. Following the advises of his supposed father, he left
Sighișoara and is now traveling to the West. After some skirmish in a
previous city, he found refuge on a boat. Viorel is now in Vienna. The
little problem is that the guy at the inn was a bit of an asshole
and helped capture Viorel thinking he was a vampire, which he is but
nobody needs to know. Now there is a huge man (which I call the colossi)
taking care of Viorel and a priest. They brought a girl. Torture my
holy water... Fail. Viorel managed to confuse everyone, now he would
like to get out of here. But the girl seems pretty useless. They still
managed to escape and he left the girl to the care of the boat lady
before going back to have two words with his captors but his power of
persuasion were failing him. The priest wanted to crack a
deal but Viorel is not really up to help his enemies. He finally got
some blood but he can't risk to stay in Vienna. He travel to Linz were
he stays a bit to learn German.
Viorel wanted to go to Praha but redirect himself toward Augsburg
instead where he wants to get a horse, except that the horses are a bit
scared of his vampirism and maybe something else. Viorel is really not a
horse expert. Then he comes into an altercation with couple of people,
he wants some fear in his blood. The girl Viorel has found seemed to
enjoy the game. Viorel prepares for the nightmares that come with a
feast of blood, in a rush to leave, he cross the dukedom of Lorrain.
We introduced Sorina, three weeks after the beginning of Viorel's escape.
Viorel dreamed of Sorina and woke up not really remembering anything.
Traveling to Paris, he arrives at "La cour des miracles". He is rescued
by a stranger who turned out to be Nicolas Flamel, the alchemist he was
looking for. Nicolas does some strange experiment without Viorel's
agreement. Some people are looking for Nicolas's secrets.
On the other side of Europe, Sorina awakes and Viorel's past in haunting him. Viorel discovered that he can change into a wolf but that's not the easiest thing to handle.
Now, let's continue with Vampire Heart, right where we left of last week. (This might be a bit awkward as I have been editing but I'm not finished)
“Pretty
much”, I said.
“That’s
not even”, Nicolas answered.
He
still had his handkerchief in front of his mouth, it was the first
time for him to see the victims of vampire and I could see his body
stretching. He was scared. It was unreasonable. It was irrational,
with all the people in the city and the vampire attacking only at
night and unable to enter houses without being invited, there was no
way he could ever be attack. The probabilities were extremely low.
And his blood was polluted by the philosopher stone, I knew what it
was but other vampires wouldn’t risk it, except maybe for the new
born. I looked at all the body, they were all clear.
“I’m
absolutely certain”, I said.
Nicolas
seemed to relax a bit.
“This
one is not one of us,” I said.
Nicolas
looked up at me. He had read in the newspaper that two bodies were
strangely mutilated and this one was one of them. There was no trace
of vampire on it, the holes in the neck were missing. Nicolas came
closer and his face turned pale at the sight. At that moment I
realized that there was something different between me and the
humans, I was able to contemplate dead in all its form without having
my heart shaken but it was different for Nicolas. For him death meant
the end and seeing a body in such a hard shape was bringing him a lot
more sensation that I could have felt. Half of the face was gone as
if devoured by a beast with large teeth, there were traced of the
animal’s front legs imprinted deeply into the man’s chest.
Nicolas overcome his nausea and started to measure them and draw them
in his notebook.
“This
one is none of our concern,” I said coldly.
I
wanted to walk to the next corps but Nicolas stopped me.
“If
we don’t stop the creature doing this what good is it to stop the
others,” he said.
I
looked at the body again and pulled the blanket away from it
completely. I could see what happened. Seeing the traces of dirt in
the man’s hair, he had been walking in a field, the beast had come
from behind surprising him, he had turned around to the noise and
probably stumbled when discovering his attacker twisting his angle
which would explain the red mark on his angle, he had tried to walk
back up using his hands which was explaining the scratch marks on his
wrists. The beast had jump on him, both front leg pushing hard in his
chest and making him fall backward. He had raise his hands to protect
himself and the beast teeth had slept from his neck where it wanted
to port the attack to his face. He was a strong man and the beast was
about the same strength. The man had continued to fight blindly for a
while but the beast was already eating his thigh. He had probably
died quickly due to loss of blood. The beast had only partially eaten
his belly and legs.
“This
was done by an animal,” I said. “The man surprised him when he
was eating so it attacked because it felt frightened, there is
nothing more to it.”
Nicolas
looked at me. I could see that he needed to breath but the smell was
too strong for him to take and delivering deep breath.
“You
might be right,” he said, “let’s concentrate on what we came
for first.”
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