"You've aged a lot" he said, and she scoffed.
"Of course I age! I'm not an immortal like you and I'm not an immortal like Kira who lived two thousand years and still remained young till her death. I'm human, Duran" she said, and he let go of her hand immediately.
"You should leave" he said.
"We're still married, you have no right to tell me to leave your sight" she replied.
"Leave, Rhea" he said more gently.
"You didn't shed even a drop of tear during Astrid's burial, I'm still in awe of that" she said.
"Are you here to talk about Astrid who's dead?" He replied.
"I know his death means nothing to you so far you still have Kira's children with you, but we both know thousand of Kira's children can never match up to Astrid! Orion is a monster and Sheila is a bloody vampire! They're both demons who needs to be killed!" She shouted.
"What's going on here?" Chief Water came in, and Rhea turned to him.
"Rhea? Wow" he smiled.
"Duran doesn't wanna see me, he told me to leave" she replied.
"Now that's too bad Duran, she's your wife. Ok I accept the child she had for you is gone, but...
"But nothing, Water. Tell her to leave" Duran interrupted.
"I'm lonely! I'm all alone, can't you just be soft for once?" She said.
"Throw a ball and and invite everyone in Delos then you'd have a full house. There's no better way to treat loneliness" Duran replied.
"That's actually a great idea" Rhea said immediately, and Duran frowned.
"I'm gonna throw a grand ball tommorow, but I don't want people from Delos, I'm sending invites to the disciples of this Institute. It'd be better to have young blood around" she said.
"Do whatever" Duran said and went in.
"Have a safe trip back" Chief Water said, and as she walked out, Chief Feathers came in.
They didn't talk to each other before she was completely gone.
"Why is she back? Wasn't she in Berlin?" She asked.
"To disturb Duran as usual" Chief Water replied and made to enter the inner room, but Feathers held him back.
"We have somewhere to be" she said, and he raised his brows.
••••••
RUTHIE'S ROOM
Ruthie had to go back immediately she saw the vision.
When she saw the one about Lissa, she waved it off easily, but this has been roaming her mind since she had it, and she has to understand it as soon as possible.
She sat in front of her mirror with her spell book, then she lightened a candle, and as the liquid began running down the candle body, she read that one line.
rogamus secta nos spiritus.
Almost immediately, the spell book started opening on it's own, and she waited, watching calmly till it got to a particular page where it stopped flipping.
The light on the candle went off immediately, and she quickly grabbed the book, focusing on that page.
There are several drawings on the page, but of the several drawings, she saw a black coffin, exactly like the one she saw in the vision.
RESURRECTIO was written beside the coffin in Latin, and her eyes widened.
"Resurrection? Wait... I saw her with a witch in the vision. Does that mean the witch helped her resurrect the person in the coffin? I definitely saw vision about the past, the resurrection happened already, but who did she resurrect?" She muttered curiously.
••••••
CAFETERIACAFETERIA
It's breakfast period before the morning class, so the cafeteria is full of disciples already, all stuffing their faces with foods.
Merlin brought Echo have a full table of food to themselves, eating like there's no tommorow.
Raven and Peony were the first to settle with them, then Ruthie. Ceres joined them too.
"Why are you both eating extraordinarily today? The world isn't ending tommorow" Peony said.
"We fought crazy beasts yesterday, it's only normal that we recharge with food" Echo replied over a mouthful of food, and Ruthie shook her head.
"You both didn't even get wounded, so what's the exaggeration" she said.
"Just leave us alone" Merlin said, and Raven laughed.
"Of course"
Ruthie made to start eating, but her spoon fell from her, so she squatted under the table to pick, then she saw Merlin and Echo holding hands underneath.
"Oh my gawd! You both are dating? You're holding hands!" She shouted.
"What!" Everyone else looked under the table immediately, but their hands are apart already.
"You saw wrong" Merlin quickly said.
"I know what I saw" Ruthie narrowed her eyes.
"We're JUST BEST FRIENDS" Echo said.
"I'll keep extra eyes on you both from now on" Ruthie said, and they all laughed.
"Hey everyone! I've missed you guys!" Samara's voice made them all look up, and their eyes widened at once.
Merlin and Echo lost their forks to the ground, and Ruthie stood with Peony.
"You look prettier! Did you eat something overnight?" They chorused.
"Don't start again, y'all" she smiled.
"For real, you're fucking gorgeous" Peony said as she settled with them.
"Seriously" they all chorused, well except Ceres who rolled eyes at her jealously.
"Where were you last night? We fought demons but you disappeared with Superior Orion" Raven asked.
"I was with my Superior, we were together and... nothing" she smiled.
"Why did you say that sweetly?" Echo said suspiciously.
"My Superior, is there another way to put it?" She replied, smiling again
"You're saying his name and smiling? Now it's more suspicious" Ruthie said.
"Guys stop" Samara said.
"We expect gists later though" Peony said.
"Sure" Samara smiled.
"Heard Astrid's mother visited this morning" Merlin said.
"Really?" Samara blinked.
"Wait...the woman with the long robe like Chief Feathers is Astrid's mother?" Ruthie asked shockingly.
"Sure, that was how they described her" Raven said, and her eyes widened again.
Does that mean...she resurrected... ASTRID!
•••••••
Meanwhile, Orion is currently on his way to the cafeteria, and he bumped into Sheila at the hallway.
"You're not planning to have breakfast?" He asked, but she only walked past.
"Hey Sheila" he blocked her.
"Do I know you? My name is Sheila Alarm for now" she said funnily.
"Don't even say the next line" he replied.
"Ding dong!" She said, and he almost laughed.
"You seem too happy this morning, what's this about?"
"Nothing much" he replied.
"Let's go for deer hunting tommorow night, I see you ran out of blood in your bottles" she said and patted his shoulder before leaving.
Orion made his way to the cafeteria, but when he tried to step in, he couldn't, a barrier blocked him.
From inside the cafeteria, Aragon is smiling as he watched. He's sitting with Agatha.
"You think he won't be able to break it?" Agatha asked.
"There's nothing in the world that can break it, he'd stay away from Samara for a while if he can't come in" he replied, drinking water.
Orion tried coming in again, but he bounced back yet again.
"Oh that's bad, no one stops me" he smirked and removed the earring in his right ear.
He pricked his finger with it and dropped his blood on the doorstep.
The barrier disappeared, and he came in stylishly.
"No one can stop me! It's hightime you lay low Aragon, otherwise it'd only take me a minute to eat your heart" he said and walked to Samara's table, pulling her up.
"Let's go" he told her.
"Where? I need to eat"
"You will, just come with me pretty girl" he said, and she followed him out.
"What just happened?" Ruthie blinked.
"I can't believe this" Peony blinked too.
"When did they get this close" Echo said.
"Beat me" Merlin said, and Ceres stood immediately.
"Samara isn't the only person in here so stop with the talks about her! Boring people!" She spat and stormed out.
"That hurts her" Ruthie said, and Peony started laughing.
They resumed dinning, and Raven suddenly felt goosebumps on his skin.
He looked back, feeling like someone is staring at him, but he saw no one.
"I don't think we'd be able to keep them away from each other" Agatha said from their table.
"I'll think of another way" Aragon replied.
•••••••
DELOS CITY, HUNTERS HOUSE
It's a beehive of activities already as different deliveries are coming in, and Jameson is busy taking them all in while Rhea sat on the sofa, drinking bourbon again.
"Must we really do this?" Jameson said after taking another package in.
"You're the one who said you want us to kill them and get out of this city as fast as possible, and throwing a grand ball is the fastest way. Everyone in the Institute will be in attendance, and that includes Sheila the main target. You'd be the one to stake her" she replied.
"You said it yourself that he has a monster as a brother, how do we handle him?" He asked.
"He'd surely go crazy after her death, and that crazy period is his weak period. We'd get him by then" she replied.
"Why am I feeling like this ain't gonna work?" He said.
"We have to make it work. The council payed us to stake them and this is what we live for. We make money by staking vampires and we have never failed, keep that in mind" she replied rigidly.
"But I'm still baffled by how I know nothing about my past life. Feels like I lost my memories" he said, and she smiled, coming closer.
"You'd understand everything after this hunt. Tommorow is the day" she smiled