Melia Corando awoke from her weakness two days after she had been pulled back from eternal silence.
Her eyes had been pierced blind in the previous torment, a wound not even a vampire's self-healing power could restore, unless she could obtain the legendary Source Blood of her family.
But for Melia, who had narrowly escaped death, desiring to see the world again was undoubtedly an indulgence she shouldn't aspire to; after coming to her senses, she felt fortunate to have avoided a disastrous end and to still have her silly sister to keep her company.
After experiencing her father's death in battle, the estrangement of her kin, the collapse of her family, the demise of her faction, and being hunted and tortured, Melia felt her vampire life had "elevated."
At least, having walked through the great terror between life and death, she no longer fixated on the gains and losses of the moment as she once did.
