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Friendly Hunters or Foes?
Stretching my arms out as we finally made it to the second hotel. This one wasn't fancy and the room was smaller, but with Rakesh going out for his midnight snacks, I didn't mind too much. He hadn't spoken to me in a while and had left without a word. Though I wasn't sure what I had said exactly to upset him.
I fell asleep easily enough but instead of waking up in the morning as I had planned, it was Rakesh who was shaking my shoulders, telling me to get up. I shot him a glare as I had not had nearly enough sleep and it was still dark outside, but the look of worry on his face alerted me to something being wrong."What?" I asked, sitting up quickly.Rakesh glanced to the door, then uttered, "I may or may not have killed a newly turned and I may or may not have accidentally got a hunter on my hide. Though I did them a favour if you ask me."I blinked at him for a moment and then looked to the door. Sure enough, I could hear someone trying tRelated chapters
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It was morning when I heard Rakesh making his way into the hotel room. Rem was still fast asleep and nothing was going to wake him up at this point. He could sleep through just about anything as I found out a few times when sharing a room with him.I leaned my head up to try and get a better look at Rakesh and raised my brows when I noticed the state of him. It looked as though someone had beaten him up, or maybe, he had been the one to inflict damage, either way, he was bloody."What in the shit happened?" I asked, trying not to be too loud even though I knew Rem wouldn't wake easily. I got out of bed as quickly as I could and went straight over to Rakesh's place. He had a brow perked up at me and an amused little smug smirk plastered on his face."Worried about me, are you?" He asked me with that cocky little tone of his.I rolled my eyes. Obviously, Rakesh wasn't in danger of dying. "You should clean up before Rem wakes up," I muttered
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Rem woke up about ten minutes after Rakesh got into bed. I had tried to probe Rakesh again, but every reply was met with an annoying joke. In the end, I decided to shelve the questions for later. Maybe Rem would know how best to probe the fool so I resigned to asking him about Rakesh after we had gotten some training in.Leaving Rakesh to his daytime sleeping, the two of us went down into the large hotel restaurant and ordered some breakfast. While we waited, Rem had me people watch. He said it was one of the first things Hunters did in order to quickly pick out the humanoids which might be dangerous and which might not be and by humanoids, he obviously meant the supernatural kind.I did... poorly. I wasn't used to this sort of thing but Rem being my best friend, was patient with me. He smiled and shook his head, kicking me under the table playfully. "Good thing I do not have to rely on you to know when to be alert or not," he teased me with a playful little gr
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The rest of the day, Rem showed me where he and his family spent most of their time training whenever they weren't pretending to be 'normal' people. They had family in this city and I had always wondered why they visited their family so often and now I understood. It was strange learning about all these new things about someone I thought I had known so well.I wasn't upset or hurt, it was my own fault for refusing to listen to my grandparents, though in a strange twist of fate, I had done what my parents wanted up until Rakesh showed up anyway - and that was staying out of the life of a Hunter. Though I wasn't a Hunter even now, I was getting some more needed training.I sighed out and slumped down onto the ground against the wall, exhausted from the fighting that Rem's cousin put me through. He was a burly man with a bushy beard. He didn't look much like Rem at all and that amused me. Rem was athletic, about as tall as Rakesh was, and was very pretty to look a
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The two days with Rem came and went quickly. I had gotten a little better at pointing out the supernatural - at least the pure-blooded ones. Half-blooded humans were harder to tell from normal humans and that would only come with experience but usually, they posed zero risk due to how diluted their supernatural blood was.Without agreeing to join the Hunters Guild, I wasn't allowed to have a gun or sword infused with silver, but Rem did help teach me how to use the knife my grandfather had given me so that I wasn't just stabbing at the more dangerous beings and hoping for the best.As for Rakesh, he still refused to talk to me about anything unless it was him being a flirtatious idiot so I did my best to ignore his stupid antics for now and worked on honing what Rem was able to teach me. I had a list of places I could go and would be welcome all across the British Isles. Rem told me if Rakesh tried to take me out of the country, to warn people. I hoped it wouldn't come
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We had been on the road for about a month now and Rakesh had finally seemed to narrow down a few select people who might know the location of the people who had taken my parents. We were staying at a rather lavish hotel, something I never imagined I'd go to in all my life. We had travelled further north England than I had ever been before, being from Wales personally - not that I knew how to speak Welsh mind you - but that's a whole other topic."So, there is a formal invite-only party tonight, right?" I asked Rakesh as we both settled into our room for the next few days. This party was going to be held over the weekend, and apparently, Rakesh knew the host of the gathering and was able to get us into the festivity without too much trouble.He nodded at me while setting aside some of his things for later. He then paused and peered at me for a moment. "I am doubting you have formal attire," he said after a moment. I rubbed the back of my neck. Regardless if I ow
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After a good day's sleep and returning to the tailor shop to pick up the outfits that had been tweaked to fit our forms better, Rakesh and I were dressed to impress. I wore a white smart shirt, black striped trousers with a buckle and belt and a black waistcoat with shiny black shoes. I had originally protested against the cost of the outfit, but Rakesh refused to hear my complaints.Rakesh himself wore a similar outfit, but the colours were swapped, his shirt was black and his waistcoat was white. It was warm enough that neither of us needed a coat and Rakesh didn't like to be weighed down too much.He styled my hair back so that it was out of my eyes. It had grown so long now that my fringe easily hid my eyes, though I almost always kept it brushed to one side, so it only covered the one eye. Now, however, it was slicked back with hair gel into a rather fancy style. Rakesh's own hair was tied up in a white bow. I thought he looked dashing but I did not voice
Under the Pale Moon The Siren's Song
The party was nothing like I had ever experienced before. It seemed the rich had their own set of rules they followed and it was fascinating to watch them. Rakesh was true to his word and introduced me to some of his associates, though he did not once mention who my parents or grandparents were. I supposed it was for the best that none knew my family were Hunters or else the supernatural beings would panic and think I was a danger to them.The host of the party was an elderly man who seemed to be about the same age as my grandparents. He wasn't familiar to me, but Rakesh seemed to know who he was and had told me to stay put where he could keep an eye on me but wished a moment to speak with the man alone. I felt that it would be fine, none of the supernatural here had seemed to take too much of an interest in me, from what I could tell, even with me being around Rakesh.I moved over to the banquet table which had several drinks and snacks and picked a few to try
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