Blood Brothers: My Life Amongst the Vampires
By Eldred Worple
Chapter 1: Meeting Sanguini
I left Lionel hours later with the information I needed to continue my journey for the truth of vampires. As fascinating as Psi vampires are, they are not what most wizards think of when they ponder and grimace over the existence of vampires. Lionel understood this stereotype immediately, and he looked quite happy to be rid of me and my questionings. Nevertheless, he gave me one last bit of help before I left.
Sanguini and an address was all that was written on the piece of paper Lionel handed me as we parted. He reassured me that Sanguini would be more than willing to help, as long as I was willing to dedicate my time to truly learning about vampires. And, after a few weeks of sending owls back and forth, I was ready to begin my life among the vampires. I carefully packed several suitcases, for I would be living with Sanguini for at least a year. This would require total isolation from the wizarding world, as vampires and wizards do not tend to live in such close quarters easily.
Sanguini looked exactly as I expected a vampire to look. He was a tall, emaciated man, with dark shadows around his large eyes. His skin did not have a waxy, sick pale look as I had thought it would, but more of a pale hard marble look to it. Unlike Lionel, Sanguini did not look haggard, but rather posh and refined. Despite the relatively horrid laws for the treatments of non-wizard part-humans, Sanguini looked as if he was getting along in life just fine.
We settled in for a bite to eat over our discussion of my research. I was quite surprised to find actual food on the table, and even more so when Sanguini helped himself to a couple of croissants. Clearly, I had much to learn about vampire. In a similar hushed accent to Lionel's, Sanguini began to explain how it was a common misconception that vampires needed only to drink blood to survive. They required food to live as well, although on a much smaller scale. "In fact," he added, gesturing to the croissants he was munching on, "these will be enough to last me throughout the day. The rest of the food on the table is for you."
"While we are on the subject, I should warn you that your life is about to become strictly vegetarian. I do not allow animal meat in my house at all." Sanguini added, sipping his tea. "I also feel that if you were to truly get a feeling for our lifestyle, you should try and drink as we do." I must have had a horrified look on my face, for he quickly added, "I do not mean pure blood! As you may have noticed, there are two types of tea on the table. The one you are drinking is purely tea. This one here," he waved his hand, "is three parts tea and one part blood. If you so choose, all drinks in the house are made this way. Of course, I will not force you to drink anything you don't want."
We continued discussing our course of action over the next few months. If I was to learn properly what it was like to be a vampire, I was going to have to completely turn my sleep schedule around. As this would take a day or two to get use to, I quickly took to bed and prepared for my first adventure with Sanguini.
Chapter 2: The First of Many Shocks
I woke up a few hours later after a terrible nightmare. It might sound weird but I suddenly felt some kind of presence in the room.
I sat up and yes, there was Sanguini, sitting in a chair as handsome and wonderful as the night before. I had a lot of respect for Sanguini, but I hated it when he started to speak, I just couldn't stand the sound of his voice because it was too low and silent but on the other hand it was also very elegant.
He smiled in a very warm and polite way, then he spoke: "my dear friend, I hope I did not frighten you, but we have to be on our way now, there is so much for you to learn. Why don't you get ready and put these clothes on."
He pointed towards the most refined outfit I had ever seen. It contained a pair of black pants, a red shirt made out of the softest silk you can imagine and off course there was also a black cape and a pair of shiny black shoes.
He must have seen the surprised smile I had on my face because he gave me a friendly tap on my shoulder and said "I'll be waiting for you in the West drawingroom."
Of course I dressed as fast as possible, ran down the old stairs and opened the door to the drawingroom. Sanguini was sitting in one of the chairs sipping on a cup. (I suppose he was drinking his home made tea, mixed with human blood). After I had closed the door, I walked towards the chair next to Sanguini's, but before I could sit down a young and beautiful woman had stolen my seat. It chocked me and I suppose Sanguini's non-stop moving eyes had seen my reaction.
"But how?" I asked. Sanguini's answer was again simple and elegant: "We vampires move too fast for human eyes to see.I would like to introduce you to Madeleine, she is a newborn vampire who has just arrived at the house, just like you," he replied.
As I looked at Madeleine, she smiled in a naughty way and looked at me as if she was going to tear me apart.
"You both have a lot to learn about a vampire's life, so I thought it would be a good idea if you two would become study-mates."
At first I thought it was a really bad idea but after a while Madeleine and I became good friends.
The three of us left the house trough a dark and smelly tunnel, the only light coming from the lantern that Sanguini had given me. After a 20 minute walk, I saw a big door and before I had realised it, Sanguine had opened it with one of the old keys he was carrying.
When I first walked into the room, I had to close my eyes for a while before I became completely accustomed to the bright lights, then I saw it...
Chapter 3: The Beautiful but Terrifying Cave
.... a small cave filled with both beauty and horror. When I looked at this strange place a shiver ran down my spine. There was something going on that I couldn’t guess for the time being.
My body filled itself with every emotion a human can feel and every fibre inside was getting restless. Everything in the cave was screaming: run, run from this evil beauty. Thou my body was on full alert, a calming mood came over me and somehow I knew that this was Sanguini’s doing. In my heart I felled that this place was a mirror of him, of what he really was.
Inside the cave was softly glowing under the pale moonlight. In wonder, I looked up only to see the ceiling. The word how formed itself upon my lips but before I was able to finish the sentence, Sanguini’s finger lay already on them. “Ss, my human child, nothing in this place must be disturbed by your voice, you shall only look, listen and feel!”
Sanguine gave a little nod to Madeleine and before I even realised I was flying in the air. Well, it wasn’t really flying but it felt like it. I was putt down on a ridge near the roof. Madeleine said: “ here you’ll sit for a while until it is done”
I had no idea what Madeleine was talking about and could only guess where this was going but the black, hungry eyes of her made me become silent and afraid. I didn’t dare to move nor breath.
The curiosity inside of me grew, I laid myself down on the cold stones and peaked over the edge of the ridge into the cave so I wouldn’t miss a thing from whatever was going to happen. My eyes fell on some golden letters on the wall. Astonished by the beauty I read: Soft lighted or ever dark like the moon in the nightly sky, shall I increase or decrease.
I wondered if there was more to see so I spied a bit around. To my left I only saw the cold and green stones of the cave and to my right I saw a stair with at her beginning the door and at her end a stream of water, separating the stair from an island.
On the island I saw Sanguini, Madeleine and two other unknown female vampires.
I didn’t had the time to look any further for Sanguini started talking, he was too far away from me to hear what he said but the echoes on the stone, made his voice sound scarier than ever before. It sounded like a wrath of an angel. I wanted to run, hide and everything else a human would do when being in danger but I couldn’t move nor hide for the only exit was to far below of me. I began to feel like a mouse in a trap waiting for the cat to pass.
Describing the anger and the hate I felt there and then would be impossible. Somehow I still don’t know, but I believe that the cave echoed my fear, Sanguini looked up and said: “not to worry my human child, today you shall feel the hunt, but you are not the hunted”
Gods! What had Sanguini just said? That I was not the hunted? Fear and terror took hold of my heart. What was going to happen? An answer to that question came soon after.
Below me the door crept open and I saw four people being pushed in by Madeleine. I saw fear and ignorance in their eyes, and I felt a deep guilty feeling toward them for I had to watch their death without the ability to tell anyone how they had died.
Slowly the four walked down the stairs and every step they took, made their eyes look more and more like glass. I guessed that one of the vampires was using mind control to keep the victims at bay. I looked down from my ridge and I had no intention of watching death do his work but I had no other choice. I felt sorry for the victims and I noticed that when they passed Sanguini, they where all called: “murders!”
That was the most ironic statement I ever heard in my life. How could Sanguini have said that when it was he who was going to kill an innocent? I was so deep in my thoughts that I had not noticed the fact that Sanguini was sitting next to me. He said: “how dare you, you of all humans and the only one we ever let near us without killing it, judge us! Do not speak of things you dot understand!” Sanguini was so mad that he raised his hand and slapped me very hard on the face. The blow came hard and unexpected.
I felt my face swelling and I knew that the slap would leave a huge bruise. Tears were rolling out of my eyes, watering my view of the cave. After five minutes the pain in my face was growing less and I swore there and then that I would never again question Sanguini nor his doing. I gazed back down in the cave and I heard sanguini say: “recto semi ay”. I knew that Sanguini had waited for me, he wanted me to look at his killings and wanted that I felt the hunt just as he said before.
Remembering the blow Sanguini gave me, I made sure that I would see everything from the scene that would follow. Gods, that was going to be horrible! Anyway, at the exact moment Sanguini said “ay”, the faces of the vampires changed, revealing the beast behind the human. And as I said before the scene was horrible. It was imprinted in my brain and there is will stay. There was no need to tell other people what I saw.
Suddenly deep from within the shadows of the cave a laughing voice was heard. Sanguini rose his head from his victim and stared at the place from where the voice was echoed. All I heard was: “you!”
Chapter 4: The Poisoned Arrow
Out of the shadows came the face of a woman. From my ridge I could see very little from the scene below for the four vampires were standing before me. It looked as if they were shielding me form a danger, I could not see. My mind started to produce a stream of questions. There were so many of them.
The woman gazed around the cave and looked every vampire before her in the eye. She gave a sneak peak to my ridge and smiled. That I had noticed.
The eyes of the new vampire were colder and darker than Sanguini’s eyes. They made me feel that I was very little and ignorant about my world. I knew that the woman was hated by Sanguini but to the why I could only guess.
Sanguini stepped forward and said to the female: “Sera …. You are not welcome here, leave this place and take your filth with you!”
The last part was spoken harder and very rude in my eyes and I saw that Sera was not pleased with that sentence. She gave a very ugly look at Sanguini.
Slowly Sera walked to her left and her face changed from human to beast with every step. I had no idea what was going to happen but I hoped that the one thought that came into my brain, was not going to take place. That hope was foolishly humane.
Without no warning and totally unexpected, Sera shot an arrow toward Sanguini’s heart. The arrow missed his goal for one of the other female vampires threw herself on it, making her to turn to dust.
Somehow I felt a great remorse for her. Strange, I didn’t even knew her. The scene that followed happened to fast for my eyes to see. I saw the last unknown vampire turn to dust, Madeleine being pierced with an arrow in the shoulder and Sanguini biting Sera in the neck.
For some reason I was pleased with the fact that Sera got hurt. I started to get afraid of my own feeling for I never had felt such hate, anger and fear before. What was going on with me?
I was so deep in my thoughts, thinking about what was happening to me, that I hadn’t notice the fact that Sera had knocked Sanguini unconscious and that she was shooting arrows at me.
A terrible pain in my lower back, made me aware again of the fact that I was still in a fighting scene. I felt blood flowing out of the wound but that was not the only thing I felt. I felt an icy cold filling my body. I screamed out of pain and terror.
Sera was sitting next to me and I could hear her say: “well, well not a vampire after all but a human and a beautiful one, my Sanguini don’t you never learn, what is it with you and females?”
Sera brought her head closer to mine and she whispered: “sorry little human but my arrows are poisoned, it is only very painful to vampires but is lethal to humans!” She smiled at me and left me on that ridge alone with my pain. I could feel my last breath slipping away and all turned dark before my eyes. The last thing I could remember was somebody talking to me …
Chapter 5: The Dreamworld
I gazed to my right and saw nothing more then a soft grey darkness. I looked to my left and I saw the same. Above me a million stars passed me by. Where was I?
In the far distance I could see somebody moving but he or she moved in a strange way. As I came near I saw it was me. The I character moved forward and back again. She was dark and looked more like a shade then a human. I saw the moon waxing 15 times and all I could feel was a terrible cold. Was I dead?
In the far distance I could here a voice speaking to me, thou it sounded familiar, I had no memory of it. I was lost in this place and out of fear, I started to scream. Strangely, I felt somebody far away do the same. I was here and not here, how could this be?
I started walking toward the horizon, towards the light but the shade form of me jumped before me and pointed into a different direction. That way was dark and I had no urge in going there. The light was calling me!
Suddenly, I felt somebody touch my lower back and speak to me again. The voice sounded deformed but it was the same voice that I heard before. Somehow it was calming me. It said that I needed to come back. I wondered about that: how can I go back, go back were! I was digging in my memory but could not find a reason why I should go back nor too what I should go back?
The shade form of me was again pointing towards the dark way. Annoyed by her, I looked at to what she was pointing. I saw a house, strange that had not been there before. Intrigued by it, I went somewhat closer. I did not know that house at all but it was more appealing to me than the light at the horizon so I entered.
A huge light surrounded me and when I could see again, I saw that I was lying on top of a bed. The familiar face of Madeleine was smiling at me and she said: “OMG, Anaya, I am so glad to see you again, you were out for 15 days and it did not look good, you were dying!”
Surprised by the fact that Madeleine spoke my name, I could not say a thing but just lay on the bed. I felt a huge care coming from Madeleine and I felt moved. Madeleine smiled again and so we sat for what seemed hours.
Chapter 1: Meeting Sanguini
I left Lionel hours later with the information I needed to continue my journey for the truth of vampires. As fascinating as Psi vampires are, they are not what most wizards think of when they ponder and grimace over the existence of vampires. Lionel understood this stereotype immediately, and he looked quite happy to be rid of me and my questionings. Nevertheless, he gave me one last bit of help before I left.
Sanguini and an address was all that was written on the piece of paper Lionel handed me as we parted. He reassured me that Sanguini would be more than willing to help, as long as I was willing to dedicate my time to truly learning about vampires. And, after a few weeks of sending owls back and forth, I was ready to begin my life among the vampires. I carefully packed several suitcases, for I would be living with Sanguini for at least a year. This would require total isolation from the wizarding world, as vampires and wizards do not tend to live in such close quarters easily.
Sanguini looked exactly as I expected a vampire to look. He was a tall, emaciated man, with dark shadows around his large eyes. His skin did not have a waxy, sick pale look as I had thought it would, but more of a pale hard marble look to it. Unlike Lionel, Sanguini did not look haggard, but rather posh and refined. Despite the relatively horrid laws for the treatments of non-wizard part-humans, Sanguini looked as if he was getting along in life just fine.
We settled in for a bite to eat over our discussion of my research. I was quite surprised to find actual food on the table, and even more so when Sanguini helped himself to a couple of croissants. Clearly, I had much to learn about vampire. In a similar hushed accent to Lionel's, Sanguini began to explain how it was a common misconception that vampires needed only to drink blood to survive. They required food to live as well, although on a much smaller scale. "In fact," he added, gesturing to the croissants he was munching on, "these will be enough to last me throughout the day. The rest of the food on the table is for you."
"While we are on the subject, I should warn you that your life is about to become strictly vegetarian. I do not allow animal meat in my house at all." Sanguini added, sipping his tea. "I also feel that if you were to truly get a feeling for our lifestyle, you should try and drink as we do." I must have had a horrified look on my face, for he quickly added, "I do not mean pure blood! As you may have noticed, there are two types of tea on the table. The one you are drinking is purely tea. This one here," he waved his hand, "is three parts tea and one part blood. If you so choose, all drinks in the house are made this way. Of course, I will not force you to drink anything you don't want."
We continued discussing our course of action over the next few months. If I was to learn properly what it was like to be a vampire, I was going to have to completely turn my sleep schedule around. As this would take a day or two to get use to, I quickly took to bed and prepared for my first adventure with Sanguini.
Chapter 2: The First of Many Shocks
I woke up a few hours later after a terrible nightmare. It might sound weird but I suddenly felt some kind of presence in the room.
I sat up and yes, there was Sanguini, sitting in a chair as handsome and wonderful as the night before. I had a lot of respect for Sanguini, but I hated it when he started to speak, I just couldn't stand the sound of his voice because it was too low and silent but on the other hand it was also very elegant.
He smiled in a very warm and polite way, then he spoke: "my dear friend, I hope I did not frighten you, but we have to be on our way now, there is so much for you to learn. Why don't you get ready and put these clothes on."
He pointed towards the most refined outfit I had ever seen. It contained a pair of black pants, a red shirt made out of the softest silk you can imagine and off course there was also a black cape and a pair of shiny black shoes.
He must have seen the surprised smile I had on my face because he gave me a friendly tap on my shoulder and said "I'll be waiting for you in the West drawingroom."
Of course I dressed as fast as possible, ran down the old stairs and opened the door to the drawingroom. Sanguini was sitting in one of the chairs sipping on a cup. (I suppose he was drinking his home made tea, mixed with human blood). After I had closed the door, I walked towards the chair next to Sanguini's, but before I could sit down a young and beautiful woman had stolen my seat. It chocked me and I suppose Sanguini's non-stop moving eyes had seen my reaction.
"But how?" I asked. Sanguini's answer was again simple and elegant: "We vampires move too fast for human eyes to see.I would like to introduce you to Madeleine, she is a newborn vampire who has just arrived at the house, just like you," he replied.
As I looked at Madeleine, she smiled in a naughty way and looked at me as if she was going to tear me apart.
"You both have a lot to learn about a vampire's life, so I thought it would be a good idea if you two would become study-mates."
At first I thought it was a really bad idea but after a while Madeleine and I became good friends.
The three of us left the house trough a dark and smelly tunnel, the only light coming from the lantern that Sanguini had given me. After a 20 minute walk, I saw a big door and before I had realised it, Sanguine had opened it with one of the old keys he was carrying.
When I first walked into the room, I had to close my eyes for a while before I became completely accustomed to the bright lights, then I saw it...
Chapter 3: The Beautiful but Terrifying Cave
.... a small cave filled with both beauty and horror. When I looked at this strange place a shiver ran down my spine. There was something going on that I couldn’t guess for the time being.
My body filled itself with every emotion a human can feel and every fibre inside was getting restless. Everything in the cave was screaming: run, run from this evil beauty. Thou my body was on full alert, a calming mood came over me and somehow I knew that this was Sanguini’s doing. In my heart I felled that this place was a mirror of him, of what he really was.
Inside the cave was softly glowing under the pale moonlight. In wonder, I looked up only to see the ceiling. The word how formed itself upon my lips but before I was able to finish the sentence, Sanguini’s finger lay already on them. “Ss, my human child, nothing in this place must be disturbed by your voice, you shall only look, listen and feel!”
Sanguine gave a little nod to Madeleine and before I even realised I was flying in the air. Well, it wasn’t really flying but it felt like it. I was putt down on a ridge near the roof. Madeleine said: “ here you’ll sit for a while until it is done”
I had no idea what Madeleine was talking about and could only guess where this was going but the black, hungry eyes of her made me become silent and afraid. I didn’t dare to move nor breath.
The curiosity inside of me grew, I laid myself down on the cold stones and peaked over the edge of the ridge into the cave so I wouldn’t miss a thing from whatever was going to happen. My eyes fell on some golden letters on the wall. Astonished by the beauty I read: Soft lighted or ever dark like the moon in the nightly sky, shall I increase or decrease.
I wondered if there was more to see so I spied a bit around. To my left I only saw the cold and green stones of the cave and to my right I saw a stair with at her beginning the door and at her end a stream of water, separating the stair from an island.
On the island I saw Sanguini, Madeleine and two other unknown female vampires.
I didn’t had the time to look any further for Sanguini started talking, he was too far away from me to hear what he said but the echoes on the stone, made his voice sound scarier than ever before. It sounded like a wrath of an angel. I wanted to run, hide and everything else a human would do when being in danger but I couldn’t move nor hide for the only exit was to far below of me. I began to feel like a mouse in a trap waiting for the cat to pass.
Describing the anger and the hate I felt there and then would be impossible. Somehow I still don’t know, but I believe that the cave echoed my fear, Sanguini looked up and said: “not to worry my human child, today you shall feel the hunt, but you are not the hunted”
Gods! What had Sanguini just said? That I was not the hunted? Fear and terror took hold of my heart. What was going to happen? An answer to that question came soon after.
Below me the door crept open and I saw four people being pushed in by Madeleine. I saw fear and ignorance in their eyes, and I felt a deep guilty feeling toward them for I had to watch their death without the ability to tell anyone how they had died.
Slowly the four walked down the stairs and every step they took, made their eyes look more and more like glass. I guessed that one of the vampires was using mind control to keep the victims at bay. I looked down from my ridge and I had no intention of watching death do his work but I had no other choice. I felt sorry for the victims and I noticed that when they passed Sanguini, they where all called: “murders!”
That was the most ironic statement I ever heard in my life. How could Sanguini have said that when it was he who was going to kill an innocent? I was so deep in my thoughts that I had not noticed the fact that Sanguini was sitting next to me. He said: “how dare you, you of all humans and the only one we ever let near us without killing it, judge us! Do not speak of things you dot understand!” Sanguini was so mad that he raised his hand and slapped me very hard on the face. The blow came hard and unexpected.
I felt my face swelling and I knew that the slap would leave a huge bruise. Tears were rolling out of my eyes, watering my view of the cave. After five minutes the pain in my face was growing less and I swore there and then that I would never again question Sanguini nor his doing. I gazed back down in the cave and I heard sanguini say: “recto semi ay”. I knew that Sanguini had waited for me, he wanted me to look at his killings and wanted that I felt the hunt just as he said before.
Remembering the blow Sanguini gave me, I made sure that I would see everything from the scene that would follow. Gods, that was going to be horrible! Anyway, at the exact moment Sanguini said “ay”, the faces of the vampires changed, revealing the beast behind the human. And as I said before the scene was horrible. It was imprinted in my brain and there is will stay. There was no need to tell other people what I saw.
Suddenly deep from within the shadows of the cave a laughing voice was heard. Sanguini rose his head from his victim and stared at the place from where the voice was echoed. All I heard was: “you!”
Chapter 4: The Poisoned Arrow
Out of the shadows came the face of a woman. From my ridge I could see very little from the scene below for the four vampires were standing before me. It looked as if they were shielding me form a danger, I could not see. My mind started to produce a stream of questions. There were so many of them.
The woman gazed around the cave and looked every vampire before her in the eye. She gave a sneak peak to my ridge and smiled. That I had noticed.
The eyes of the new vampire were colder and darker than Sanguini’s eyes. They made me feel that I was very little and ignorant about my world. I knew that the woman was hated by Sanguini but to the why I could only guess.
Sanguini stepped forward and said to the female: “Sera …. You are not welcome here, leave this place and take your filth with you!”
The last part was spoken harder and very rude in my eyes and I saw that Sera was not pleased with that sentence. She gave a very ugly look at Sanguini.
Slowly Sera walked to her left and her face changed from human to beast with every step. I had no idea what was going to happen but I hoped that the one thought that came into my brain, was not going to take place. That hope was foolishly humane.
Without no warning and totally unexpected, Sera shot an arrow toward Sanguini’s heart. The arrow missed his goal for one of the other female vampires threw herself on it, making her to turn to dust.
Somehow I felt a great remorse for her. Strange, I didn’t even knew her. The scene that followed happened to fast for my eyes to see. I saw the last unknown vampire turn to dust, Madeleine being pierced with an arrow in the shoulder and Sanguini biting Sera in the neck.
For some reason I was pleased with the fact that Sera got hurt. I started to get afraid of my own feeling for I never had felt such hate, anger and fear before. What was going on with me?
I was so deep in my thoughts, thinking about what was happening to me, that I hadn’t notice the fact that Sera had knocked Sanguini unconscious and that she was shooting arrows at me.
A terrible pain in my lower back, made me aware again of the fact that I was still in a fighting scene. I felt blood flowing out of the wound but that was not the only thing I felt. I felt an icy cold filling my body. I screamed out of pain and terror.
Sera was sitting next to me and I could hear her say: “well, well not a vampire after all but a human and a beautiful one, my Sanguini don’t you never learn, what is it with you and females?”
Sera brought her head closer to mine and she whispered: “sorry little human but my arrows are poisoned, it is only very painful to vampires but is lethal to humans!” She smiled at me and left me on that ridge alone with my pain. I could feel my last breath slipping away and all turned dark before my eyes. The last thing I could remember was somebody talking to me …
Chapter 5: The Dreamworld
I gazed to my right and saw nothing more then a soft grey darkness. I looked to my left and I saw the same. Above me a million stars passed me by. Where was I?
In the far distance I could see somebody moving but he or she moved in a strange way. As I came near I saw it was me. The I character moved forward and back again. She was dark and looked more like a shade then a human. I saw the moon waxing 15 times and all I could feel was a terrible cold. Was I dead?
In the far distance I could here a voice speaking to me, thou it sounded familiar, I had no memory of it. I was lost in this place and out of fear, I started to scream. Strangely, I felt somebody far away do the same. I was here and not here, how could this be?
I started walking toward the horizon, towards the light but the shade form of me jumped before me and pointed into a different direction. That way was dark and I had no urge in going there. The light was calling me!
Suddenly, I felt somebody touch my lower back and speak to me again. The voice sounded deformed but it was the same voice that I heard before. Somehow it was calming me. It said that I needed to come back. I wondered about that: how can I go back, go back were! I was digging in my memory but could not find a reason why I should go back nor too what I should go back?
The shade form of me was again pointing towards the dark way. Annoyed by her, I looked at to what she was pointing. I saw a house, strange that had not been there before. Intrigued by it, I went somewhat closer. I did not know that house at all but it was more appealing to me than the light at the horizon so I entered.
A huge light surrounded me and when I could see again, I saw that I was lying on top of a bed. The familiar face of Madeleine was smiling at me and she said: “OMG, Anaya, I am so glad to see you again, you were out for 15 days and it did not look good, you were dying!”
Surprised by the fact that Madeleine spoke my name, I could not say a thing but just lay on the bed. I felt a huge care coming from Madeleine and I felt moved. Madeleine smiled again and so we sat for what seemed hours.