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.
She
walked to the door and I sat back at the desk.
“You
better drink your chocolate and rest before going to hunt, your wound
is still not cured,” she said and she closed the door behind her.
Perenelle
had that effect to put some kind of order in my thought. I walked to
the closed, took the key out of my pocket and grabed the satchel. It
was time for me to write the letter to my uncle. To show him that I
was still alive and nowhere near him and to tell him that he needed
to send someone else to get me if he didn’t want me to evaporate
into thin air. The letter would take about a week to travel to
Hungary from Praha, I would pay the post to have it travel by horse
instead of by boat to make it slow down a bit, it would take about
three days more as the horse riders wouldn’t travel at night. I
couldn’t risk to delay it any longer than that without alerting
him. It was a big gamble. Then it would take about nine days for the
vampire to arrive in Praha, they wouldn’t ride horses, I didn’t
remember any horses near the castle, but they might want to have
humans driving the cars for them during the night. I pondered my
chances. I could take care of most things in the city tonight, making
sure that people knew I was going to London then take the opposite
direction. I wanted to go see the other side of my family to learn
about my transformation and how to transform again during the day,
how to avoid it during the full moon. I was going to Grand duchy of
muscovy, the snowy land, the land of the wolves. I started the
letter, it read like this.
“Dear
Uncle,
I
have the pleasure to inform you that I am feeling very well and that
your friends are unfortunately very dead. It wasn’t really smart to
send me inexperienced and incompetent vampires. It took them so long
to find me I didn’t have any idea of what they might be doing
during all that time. I for sure enjoy my holidays in Praha and my
meeting with the family was delightful. I added two more swords to my
collection. That being said if you intend to send me someone else,
make sure they know how to use them. I would have loved to see you
but you unfortunately seem too busy. I guess once I have killed all
your friends you’ll have to come for me yourself.
Sincerely
forever yours,
Viorel
Ustrel.”
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That letter to his uncle is fantastic! I really cannot wait to read this story in its entirety.
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