Nedra entered the bent forest carrying the large, old book under her arm with the scribble that mentioned vampire mates. She pulled it out to look at it again now that the shade from the trees gave her some cover from the sun.
The heavy book made her sweat during the long trek from her cottage to the castle. Too bad she couldn't manufacture some kind of cooling system in this world.
"That would be convenient," she chuckled to herself.
She dried the thin sheen of moisture she had left on the weathered cover with her sleeve, silently rereading the title. "The Mythic Immortals." It was a book she had gotten from a small old bookstore in Port Angeles that had a lot of first editions and new age books. Besides libraries, these were the best resources she had found during her days of seeking answers for ways to kill the vampire.
