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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.
Now, let's continue with Vampire Heart, right where we left of last week.
My
horse seemed happy to see me. I had paid my last money for him to be
well treated but he had probably been hungry while waiting for me. I
didn’t complain. I was already feeling lucky that they didn’t
sell it or kill it for the meat. They were poor people but still
honest. Nicolas and Perenelle were there waiting for me too. We
didn’t talk about the burning of the house, that was a painful
subject for them who had had too many memories in there and I
couldn’t tell them that I didn’t burn it. I knew the danger in
which my action was putting us but I just hoped that nobody was going
to find out where we have gone even though it might be known that
they were not dead.
But
the fire took off anyway. Someone might have found the match box and
used it too close of the house which was just ready to burn. We heard
few days before that the fire had rapidly gained the other houses and
the entire street before being stopped. People had started to bring
water soon enough from the scene to be able to reduce the progression
of the flame. Nicolas wondered how the fire could have stayed so
confine for so long but that didn’t bother him too much, at least
the job had been done and that helped me relax a bit. I was feeling
nauseous at the bare sight of a candle. I was scared of fire, and
that was an uncontrollable fear. I was just fixing it until I felt
like it had absorbed all my energy.
Fire
was making me lose myself. I was scared but I was attracted by the
fear. When I was looking at the fire I stopped thinking, I stopped
wondering about the meaning of my future without Sorina.
But
Nicolas didn’t intend to keep things this way. Few days after we
were installed in Praha the training started again, more intense than
before. Nicolas was not limited by his old age anymore and he
wouldn’t stop working before complete exhaustion. We were sleeping
one day out of two or three and eating the food Perenelle was
bringing us often three or four reheat when our stomachs were so
crawling with hunger and our hands started to shake. I didn’t say
anything, just follow his directive it was easier that way. He was
making physical tests on me and testing my knowledge. Most of the
time, I read the same books over and over again until I could tell
him everything from the top of my head. He didn’t let anything
pass, he thought that keeping my mind busy and entertained was going
to cure my fear of fire by erasing my need of Sorina but I was
missing her every second. There was nothing in this world that wasn’t
reminding me of her.
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