Minndt, the god of spirit and feelings, was himself lost with his feelings. It was a shame. If his father found out, panic guaranteed! So he kept this secret to himself and the turmoil within him, the anarchy in his heart, the chaos in which his soul found itself. But if the ruse he had put in place worked with almost everyone, Day was not fooled. Nor are the twin vampire gods. Putting his disturbance and passivity on account of what had happened to him, the cunning could not take with the god of deception and malice. Immediately he had warned Nyx who warned Day. But the blond already had strong suspicions.
"What are we doing? He's more and more out of touch with reality," the young god whispered as he watched Minndt playfully play with his magic.
"We should know what he has in mind. Even if we can read the spontaneous thoughts, we are not him, nor his father," sighed Nyx."He thinks his ruse works, he forgot who he's talking."
"I don't think he wants his father to know about his behaviour."
"What do we do then? He will eventually attract the suspicion of others and his father will be on the news quickly!"
"Let's ask him," Dark Nyx cut off, leaving the other two puzzled."Or rather, you should ask him for Day. Even though he seems comfortable with the presence of alphas around him, he winced when we get too close. He panics as soon as an alpha guard gets too close to him in the hallways. Start a casual discussion, wait until he's fully picked up and bam! You ask him."
"You are malicious my word!"
"It's all in the name, blond."
"I told you not to call me that."
"I like to tease, do you prefer little god? Mini Lord? Oh I know, mini Lord Day the little god!"
The younger rolled his eyes and walked over to the table where Minndt was sitting. The vampire twins quickly left the room, claiming that they had run out of ink to leave them alone.
"There is ink left in the cabinet," the god of spirit and feelings said as soon as the door was closed."What exactly do you want to talk to me about?"
"How do you..."
"This is the first time that we are alone, except when I looked after you during your first heat. They didn't go out for anything, you have something to ask me. don't forget who I am."
"You forgot who Nyx's brother was. Your cunning didn't work with him and he warned his brother."
"Nor with you. I knew she wouldn't work with you but I didn't expect him to notice that so quickly. He's constantly pacing the room."
"How did you know your cunning wouldn't work with me?"
"You always lie to yourself. Things are going well, I will talk with my father. I will visit my mother in France. You lie to yourself. You don't want to go see her and even less talk with your father and things are not going well."
"Stop probing my mind."
"I searched your soul too."
"Minndt."
"Don't be mad at me, I just want to understand you better so that I can help you. You put everyone first on your list of concerns, but and you, where are you on this list?"
"Let's stop talking about me. I've come to talk to you."
Minndt got the answer he expected and made the magic disappear from his fingers.
"Emotional distress."
The god jumped at the sudden slap of his hand on the table, looking up at Day. Anger was exuding from all over his body, his heart was pounding fast, his hands were shaking slightly, and his eyes were saying the words his mouth couldn't say. Minndt just nodded and sat up in his seat.
"Excuse me, I shouldn't have. What exactly are you talking to me about?"
"About the way you are now and what you just did."
"Where do we start?"
"The second. I told you not to probe my mind."
"You think so, it's attractive. You blame yourself for everything that happens but what happened to me is by no means your fault. You are not the one leading the Order, it is not your fault. it is not you who murders innocent vampires. It is not you who abandoned yourself, it is not you who ignores yourself while you live in the same monastery. You are not guilty of the faults of others."
"My role is to guide you."
"Your role is to guide us, protect us and make sure the world continues to turn in the right direction. You protect the world and these inhabitants but you are not guilty of what they do with their lives."
"It's you who is saying it."
"Everything suddenly came back like it was five years ago now and you're afraid of doing wrong. You don't want this fate. You don't want this life."
"This is not a life!"
"Running constantly, fighting for everyone, training constantly, managing everything? Maybe. You think you're selfish dreaming about ordinary life, you just need the freedom."
"And I had it until I was called and Nyx showed up at my place!"
"When this is all over, you will return to your ordinary life when you are not ordinary. You are unique, you are strong, you need peace."
"It's okay stop, enough about me I've had enough!"
This time, Minndt grabbed Day's hand before she hit the table, his deep blue eyes meeting the deep green of the blonde's eyes. He was about to cry. It was too much of a sudden. The man with the one white wick nodded slightly, squeezing his hand for a moment before feeling his magic pulsing at his fingertips.
"She's strong, I can feel her," he smirked, raising his hand before starting to observe her."Moain says your progress is glaring but I've never seen a spark of your powers yet."
"Stop talking to me about myself, I swear stop, I'm going to lose all my patience. Tell me why you're like that."
"That is to say?"
"So thoughtful. Okay, that's normal you are, but right now you are more than usual. You are more and more out of touch with reality."
"Just like you, there is a storm in me. They are different in origin but they have the same strength."
Day's hand was gently placed on the table before Minndt stood up, motioning for the young blond to follow him to the window. The older man opened it and voices rose from the large training room across the road. All the windows were open and allowed you to see very clearly inside, especially Nyx and his brother who were there as well as all the others.
"They've gone to get some ink, haven't they?" teased Minndt. "I am a little lost."
"Lost?"
"I don't understand what's going on. You know, the feelings all of this...they're hard to understand."
"Oh, I know..."
"I know you Nyx and you were not yet set when we arrived at home the first time. I've seen the way you are. You n I wasn't totally in love yet but the spark was there."
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"Because I knew you needed time. I know how the feelings and emotions of the people around me work, but when it comes to mine..."
"Is it more complicated?"
"So much harder, I don't understand why this is happening."
"Aren't you trying to tell me you're in love, by any chance?"
The blush on the older man's cheeks made the younger laughter who looked more intently around the room, watching Orthon train against Toxin. He led the dance and parried each of the blows, his concentration being total on his opponent.
"He's not a bad person. He's scared," Minndt asserted, leaning back against the window frame."I read his mind several times, I looked at memories..."
"Really?"
"Yes. I know I have to ask him first but his mind becomes harder to penetrate when he knows it. He protects himself, many times unconsciously. His mind fights my coming without him noticing."
"Can I confess something to you?"
"Of course, I won't judge."
"When we returned after finding you, he was so terrified that he tried to flee the isolation room, or rather the interrogation cell. We found him in the forbidden room, he forced the lock to enter than when we found him, he asked us to kill him because he was so scared."
"The Order has what is left of its immediate family."
"You saw it?"
"I saw the memory where the Order came to pick up his brother and cousins. I saw the faces of the vampires who took them away. He remembers it vividly."
"Good news! Have you seen a memory of the castle where the Order sits?"
"He never was, it was one of those vampires who told him before he took his family. He cried once he closed the door, for hours during which he got angry. against his belongings before falling asleep on the floor. He was left alone for several years before Order members were sent to his home."
"Have you been able to go back very far in his memory?"
"Until when?"
"1910."
The god of spirit and feelings looked shocked for a moment before he understood.
"What did you find?" he asked without even taking his gaze from the training room.
"I went in the back of the library with Lou and Foud. We are not allowed, I know, but Nyx and his brother want to know what happened to their uncles. Something is wrong with this story, I guarantee it."
"I have always found this matter strange. The way our parents react when we bring up the subject always disturbed me."
"Your father got really angry when he found us in the forbidden room. But in the back of that library, there were shelves full of various items, books, chests and at the back…"
"I'm listening, what was there?"
"A bloodstained sword and a medallion on it. The same medallion Nyx and Orthon wear. We believe Nyx and his brother are running after death."
"All that doesn't mean anything to me..."
"There was a ghost too."
This time, Minndt turned to him and watched him for a moment before raising an eyebrow.
"A ghost?"
"We didn't see his face clearly but it was a human figure. We were so scared that we left, already that we felt observed since we had entered the room. You have to believe that we have hallucinated but..."
" I believe you. I've seen a ghost before too."
"Really?"
"Near the second staircase during the night. I walked past it and saw someone lean over the railing. The ghost watched me go down the hallway across the way, as I stood there. I turned around and saw him staring at me. I was so afraid that the ghost would follow me that I locked myself in a room for a moment before looking to see if he was gone. We are not alone."
"Do you think it could be…"
"One of their uncle? If they're dead and they're haunting the place, they must know we investigated. We have tried to understand once but our parents refused to say anything."
"They're looking for them too."
"Hmm?"
"Now that I remember it, Orthon said they asked him if they knew where his younger uncle, in a relationship with Nyx's younger uncle, had gone with his brother and Nyx's uncles. is complicated to follow."
"Oh, so they're step-cousins. Interesting. If you ask my opinion, we don't know anything about our own family."
"Who are you telling this...My family is weird, I don't know anything about my grandfather, I don't know if I have a grandfather and I have the name of my mother who abandoned me. I don't even know how old she is."
"Your father and your uncle are very old, well…"
"Don't worry. Keep going."
"They're old, they've known Nyx's uncles and Orthon's uncles...You'd have to ask them. Unfortunately, you're the only one who can afford to do that. Your father would tear our tongue out himself if we did. were doing it."
"Hmm…"
"I don't know why, but I have the strange feeling that the Order has something to do with it...All these pieces, these riddles, must form the same puzzle. response to one item, everything will unlock. Orthon will be reunited with his family, The Order will be destroyed, Nyx and his brother will know the truth they have been seeking for so long."
"Maybe we'll find out who this ghost is that we saw too. If so, we've seen the same one but we don't have enough clue to find out."
"Indeed."
"We need to solve the puzzle before the Order gets its way. We need to prevent them from successfully turning all the vampires in their camp and reducing the humans to mere leggy food."
Omega and beta looked at each other and the same thought occurred to them. Day looked around the training room one last time before stepping away from the window, picking up his black haori jacket with gold patterns.
"You can go join the alpha vampire you have feelings for, I'll talk to my father and uncle," the emerald-eyed god said solemnly.
"I 'm not..."
"You are in love too, it is love that you feel. It can be heard in your voice and your feelings are mutual, we can all guarantee it. Let Nyx know to me please."
"Day!"
"Yes?"
"Wouldn't you like to come with me?"
"Oh, yes it's true. Sorry, that got out of my head, come on, I'll go with you and I hurry to go see them."
"You look determined."
"I have to find these answers, my mind only thinks about it now. At night I can hardly fall asleep!"
"You are truly extraordinary."
"And you in love with an alpha you're afraid to be too close to when the only thing he could do is kiss you."
"Kiss me?"
"He's dying for it, manner of speaking. The way he was looking at you at the hot springs...You ask him to come to your room and he loses consciousness! Haha, let's go!"
Minndt in turn took his haori jacket and followed him, embarrassment on his face. If Day was right, what did he have to do to get things started? Should he talk about this with Orthon directly or more implicitly? Was inviting him to his room a good idea? A thousand questions ran through his mind before they all disappeared when they were in front of the door. Foud's voice could be heard as well as Leit's. Taking his courage, Minndt slid the two leaves of the door and entered the room. Day waited a few minutes in the hallway, time to make sure he didn't run away before resuming his journey. When he reaches his destination, he will find himself face to face with his father and uncle.