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CHAPTER 31 — REMINISCENCE, PAST LIFE.
JEREUMS'S P.O.V.
I woke up, remembering the executions I carried out last night. The creatures I killed were for the good of the town. Though many did not know about their existence and even thoughts them to be myths, I and my colleagues did all we could to ensure that those creatures stayed at Bay.
Today was a special day, we got a lead that strange activities were being carried out in the abandoned corn mill. The building was well built, steady and sturdy. A few mechanical problems with the machines had left it abandoned for now but the blood drinkers must have seemed refuge within it's walls.
I stared at my cobwebbed ceiling, lying down. Whistling away the little joy I had in life. Rackety taps on the window put my on alert, I rushed up to my feet, almost tripping over the empty phial that lay carelessly on the ground. I peered out my window, it was dark outside, I could barely see a thing except for the wagons that stood outside my neighbour's houses.
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Crimson Moon CHAPTER 33 — I AM MY WORST ENEMY
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Crimson Moon CHAPTER 34 — SECOND DATE.
FRIDAYWe got back home, my training session with Jereum yesterday ended up turning into a full on clan fight. Leya had stayed behind to get more seeds and plants for her little garden while the rest of us departed. I was still flooded with the feel and emotional I had felt while I was in Jereum's memories.His story was one filled with great contradiction and bends all over. Sure he had killed the Supreme that killed his parents but in that being impurified, and even begging to be killed rather than to live as a vampire. The hate I felt for my kind when I was in his life was enough to burn me up from the inside.He had actually hated vampires with so much of himself, he would have rather died by the sword than live as one. As for his relationship with Tia, it was now becoming clear to me that she was not a direct cousin to him, rather more like a descended one. She was the only family he could be with without posing a threat to her life, and that was probably t
Crimson Moon CHAPTER 35 — STEP ASIDE.
FRIDAYIre bubbled under my skin. My usual dormant beast had been awoken again. My limbs were trembling because of the effort I used to keep myself from dashing at the tree and tearing him apart. He looked at us one by one through his dark cold eyes."Do it... Let's see how fast you can cover the distance before I slit her throat." He materialized a long bladed silver knife and put the blade to Dawn's throat and I tried as hard as I could to stop myself from moving from the spot I was."Doesn't anyone remember me?" He asked.His voice was wounded and cold, like as if he had swallowed a rock that tore its way down to his belly.Everyone was silent."I do."Jhan's voice tore through the silence and carried along with it a blanket of surprise that covered us all."One hundred and fifty years ago."The man looked intensely at Jhan before a wide smiled crawled into his face."Yes, you do. How could you forget?"
Crimson Moon CHAPTER 36 — BACK HOME.
SATURDAYWhen I got back home it was already the break of a new day. I stayed in the parlour and as far away from Dawn as possible. I felt a rising hatred myself that was overcoming me. It was my fault she got hurt the first and instead of me to protect her I let her down. How was I sure I could still keep her safe, even now.And Leya, I had almost blurted out Dawn's name at the time that Lupine was counting me down. I had betrayed her whether she knew it or not. But there was nothing I could do, it was either Leya or Dawn and I chose Dawn. So what is the black wolf wasn't there? Then what could have happened.Over the next few days I stayed at home Dawn got better quickly.Jhan had agreed to keep Dawn a secret from the higher court, Jereum did whatever Jhan did so I guess got lucky at that. Tia on the other hand was just all round sympathetic. She was in support of my relationship with Dawn but at the same time she felt bad. I could see the pitiful
Crimson Moon CHAPTER 37 — YOUR HUMAN.
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Crimson Moon CHAPTER 38 — MASS.
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Crimson Moon CHAPTER 39 — FIGHT OR DIE.
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