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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. After finding out that a younger version of Nicolas
might not be acting with his best interest at heart, Viorel decides to
leave for the north. He is now traveling with two people, Alexej who
needed to get out of Praha and Irina who he accidentally rescued.
Now, let's continue with Vampire Heart, right where we left off last week.
“I knew it,” she said with a voice so strong, that I wonder where it could be coming from in her frail body, before fainting.
That was new, I had never really see her faint before but I still moved fast enough to catch her. I wonder what had made her faint, if it was my transformation or my naked body. She was wet and cold in my arms and I needed to hurry back before anyone else noticed that we had disappeared. Her seeing me change was a big enough trouble to deal with, I still didn’t have a plan about it. I knew she could keep a secret. She had kept hers until tonight and she would never have told me, she had told it to someone who she thought was unable to repeat it. And she had never told anyone that I was a vampire. She could have yelled it in the first inn, that she had been kidnapped, show them the bites. I vaguely recalled that she wanted me to change her to take her revenge. I didn’t really recall her words but my wolf form had understood her emotion and her situation. I was still unable to formulate clear human thoughts in my mind, I was moving on instinct and I was glad about it because I didn’t recognise the forest around me. The only thing telling me that we were in the right direction was that I could find and pick up my clothes on the way.
It was calm outside when we emerged from the forest. I deduced that everybody was still too busy to have been thinking about us. I attached Irina to the rope she had made herself with my bed sheet to escape from the bedroom. I still couldn’t believe that she hadn’t done it before to escape me, the thought of a human wanting to be changed into a vampire was alien to me. As far as my memory went, I had only seen human changed against their will or foolish guys like the new born vampire from Cosmin which probably wouldn’t have stood a chance to survive even if I hadn’t killed him. I dressed up as it was still the easier way to get my clothes up. They were really covered with mud and I would have to ask the inn keeper to get me a bath. Irina also needed one when she woke up. I climbed at the bed sheet first, it was more difficult than I had imagined, my coordination was lacking due to lack of blood and the feet I had hurt when jumping the first time was starting to make itself known again. I managed to reach the balcony anyway and pulled on the bed sheet to get Irina still unconscious up. She was heavier hanging from a rope than she had been in my arms but I still managed to get her up. I carried to her room, took off her dress and tried to remove the dirt on her body with a wet clothes. She was still fainted and I was grateful to be able to put a new dress on her before she woke up. Being undress before me would have been embarrassing for her, probably even more than seeing me naked. But the truth was that I was a bit afraid that she might try something. I still remembered her asking me if she could replace Sorina. I tried to wash her hair before putting her to bed but gave up rolling them and the top of her head in a cloth. She would have to do that herself. I put her in bed and made sure she had enough blanket. I went to my room and tried to clean myself up, and the mess, wondering how I would explain that I needed new bed sheet.
“What happened here?” the inn keeper said entering the room.
