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.
“Then
there are things we need to do before you leave, it’s not much but
I thought I would have a lot more time to prepare. Can’t you stay a
few more days?” Nicolas asked.
“Every
minute I stay here is one more putting you and Perenelle in danger,”
I answered.
It
was not entirely true, during the day there was no way anyone would
recognize me as a vampire. I just wanted to get out of here as soon
as possible. The long good bye were definitely not my style. I
suddenly felt the taste of adventure fill my mouth, it had been so
long since last time I had taken the road, I definitely needed
something new. I had this huge impression that there was nothing
really left for me here, as if all I had really done was to hide from
the vampire and from myself all this time. I needed to find my
answers and they weren’t in this house anymore.
“How
will you travel?” Nicolas asked.
“With
my horse,” I answered.
“That
old thing won’t get you near past the end of the city. You better
get a new one and a carriage,” Nicolas said.
I
didn’t think about the carriage but I had thought about getting a
second horse, this time I needed two. The carriage suddenly sound
like a good idea. I knew I wasn’t the best horse rider in the
country even though I had trained more than my bottom was willing to
disclose.
“I’ll
get a carriage,” I said.
“You
better get going and come back as soon as you can,” Nicolas said.
I
finished my bread but didn’t touch my hot chocolate, the smell of
it was making me feel nauseous. I went back to change my shirt before
leaving. There was nothing more suspicious than a man with blood on
his collar.
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This snippet has so many great lines in it! Loved the long goodbye line and about being on the road again. Also loved the part about his horse riding and the blood on the collar. I can't wait to read what adventures he has once he leaves.
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