His neck hurt so badly as he sat there and tried to concentrate on the task at hand. He was now on his second marble orb to carve, as the first one did indeed, blow up.
"This is harder than I thought it would be..." he grunted as he tried his best to swivel the metal chisel across the smoothed surface with accuracy.
"What is the next step?" Azier wondered and looked over to the opened book where Yrsula had sat, but look disinterested.
What happened to 'let's move on from this and forget it ever happened'? He bet he could've guessed...
"Hello?" He peered over and tapped to the book page. "You're supposed to be learning this, Yrsula. Remember?"
The young woman looked over to him with those beautiful sunny eyes that were flat and much duller than they usually were. Man...she really was in love with him, wasn't she? Why couldn't she just be a Vampire?
...Could humans be turned into Vampires? If so; how? ...and would she even be interested?