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Edith laughed out at once. The story was such that it hurt his heart whenever he told it, but now he felt nothing of such hurt again.
Though none of the Vam hunters asked him about what happened next, it did not mean that the men of west Petra did not ask him and since he was asked. He only continued his story.
When he opened his eyes, his mother, who sang for him and hoped to put him to sleep, was already lying in her pool of blood.
And that it was his father who thus killed his mother right before his eyes. However, it was not that his father had killed his mother purposely because he did that to satisfy his hunger for blood.
Edith nodded. That meant that the men of west Petra thus guessed right.