Vicent was looking the stars and beside him were Clara. They still couldn't believe that Elena was gone.
"Do you remember when you rescued me from the empire's soldiers?" Asked Clara. "I was so confused, not knowing who the enemy was, where I was, what was going on. She helped me to ..." Clara sobs covered the rest.
"Do you mean when my aunt ... cof cof ... I mean, when the captain accepted the job of kidnapping the youngest daughter of a small country, by the king of that same country, from the hands of the empire?"
The captain walked beside his right hand, Arnoggs Flintforce, he takes care of all the flying ship's machines. They murmured in a low voice and were so distracted that they almost tripped over the two young adults lying on the floor.
"Aunt!" Exclaimed Vicent, Clara hit the back of the blonde's head. "I mean ... Uncle"
"Vicent, you must be careful. Only we are here, but what if someone else had heard?" The ship's captain looked at him fiercely. She raised the boy since his parents died in one of the many imperial factories, the boy was a little genius and when she took him in, he looked like a fish in the water at Arnoggs' forge. A large part of the ship's workers were exchanged for automatons and robots, but they had to be careful, many were still humans and dwarves, they already received a big blow for El's death, if it were discovered that she hides her identity over 20 years ... she didn't even want to imagine the consequences
"Children, I'm sorry for your friend." The dwarf had an extremely strong body, one of his eyes was a glass eye and the other was a monocle with at least three magnifying glasses, his left arm and right leg were made of a mixture of copper and iron, he was already more a cyborg than a dwarf. "But we still have a mission, Elena would not like you two to waste time. We were informed that further south of the Star city, a train, full of sick workers or partially mutilated from the factories, are going to head to the capital. We have to rescue as much as possible. "
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"Yes, I said that we are in the capital." Victor smirk. "Don't worry, you are no longer an enemy."
"Enemy?" Elena would like to yell at him, of course they are enemies. The empire kidnaps its own population and also uses ridiculous excuses to get more slaves. The Empire uses policies that favor only the country's nobility and uses extreme means to conquer even more territories. However, even though they are part of the resistance, they act in secret, they used the excuse of being pirates and traders. Obviously so that the empire would not crush them, the pirates stayed away from any official ship as well as the empire's nobles. "I am just a citizen of the Great Empire, I was never an enemy."
"Don't make me a fool." For the first time Victor's smile faded from his face. "Your past doesn't matter now. I'll make myself clear, you died, when I found you your heart had already stopped beating for at least 5 hours, your blood was already cold and you were nothing more than a corpse. Because of your lack of luck or having committed some great sacrilege while dying, you were becoming a cursed being. I put my blood in your mouth and transferred some of my power, prevented you from becoming a total vrykolaka.But, unfortunately you didn't become a total vampire either, you are somewhere in the middle "
"Vrykolaka?" She frowned when she heard a name she had never heard.
"A being that is among vampires and werewolves. I really would like to know how you were becoming one. Did you happen to eat sheep meat recently?"
"I ... I ... hmm ... yes. Clara brought sheep meat for dinner yesterday, or it was the day before yesterday." The man looked at her incredulously and laughed.
"You know, I always thought that part of the legend was a joke. Like someone would really become a vrykolaka just for eating sheep meat injured by a wolf? But it looks like it really can happen." He poured more of the blood in the bottle for Elena and him. "Type O blood is my favorite, it's very sweet. Oh yes, as far as I know your race also has something for liver. That's why today's foie gras."
She felt her throat go dry as she looked at the bowl in front of her, her mouth filled with saliva and she felt her fangs become more prominent. She looked away, didn't want to drink something as disgusting as human blood.
"When will I be able to leave this room?"
"At any time, you Elena, you are not a prisoner here. Today a train with new products will arrive in the capital and I do not have time to accompany you, but I will help you in the new path for immortality starting tomorrow. Today the Ghoul 32 can show you around. Ah yes, I almost forgot, the day is as deadly for you as the legends say. This deficiency will continue for your first century or until you reach the vampiric noble strength rank. I would stay away from pure silver if I were you, a half vrykolaka can have this weakness. "
"Is your name really Ghoul 32?" She addressed the woman who was still leaning against the wall with her eyes closed.
"I am the 32th Ghoul created by the master. My name was Alice."
"Now that you know each other better, I'm going." He walked to the door and seemed to remember something, Victor bent down in front of Elena and kissed her on the forehead. "Remember to change your clothes before leaving your room. This nightdress is not appropriate."
The woman opened her eyes wide and tried to punch him, the man dodged and in the blink of an eye he was already walking through the door.