They went straight up to the flat without running into any neighbours, it wasn't something that worried the boy either, but it was better not to be the talk of the block, he still had parents to explain himself to even if the old vampire didn't want to.
The concept of having parents again had been a pleasant surprise for Ashan, his mother died three years after giving birth to his younger brother. His father and everyone else in his family who was still alive died when he was barely twenty-two. Feeling loved in that unconditional way was comforting, and the new entity that was Pablo wasn't going to discard his new parents.
Eternity was an extraordinarily lonely path, you could fall in love, or even have something resembling a family. It was true that the bonds with your own offspring were deep, but they were nothing compared to the true love of a mother or father.
