Chapter 4
Irena feels a cold breeze, but she doesn't pay attention, she continues with her search in Aleera's chest. Finally she opens the journal.
January 20, 1473
Little Aleera have 5 years old, and Marishka is like her guardian angel. She enters her room in the night to watch her sleep and when she returns she tell me everything about her. She acts like a mother; I think she would die for her if it is necessary.
Verona is a little jealous but I can handle that, Marishka is in a process that we must respect.
October 30 1473
Finally Marishka show herself before Aleera, she told me everything, little Aleera was playing in the forest and Marishka appear before her.
-----------"Who are you?
-----------"I am one of Dracula's brides, my name is Marishka
The fear in the eyes of Aleera caused anguish in my beloved Marishka.
-----------"No, do not fear me little Aleera. I want to be your friend, I will never harm you.
-----------"Everybody says that you and your master are heartless killers.
-----------"We are what we are; we are part of nature, predators. But once, we were humans.
-----------"You are pretty.
---------"Thank you Aleera, you are very pretty too. You know, I saved your live once, I saved you from my master and my sister Verona, I begged for your life and for that, you must do something for me, in pay.
---------"You saved me?
---------"Yes I did
---------"What can I do to repay you?
---------"Be my sister, my little sister and best friend, now and for ever. When you grow up I will come for you and we will be together for all eternity. You will be beautiful for ever; you will never taste illnesses or death. You will be eternal Aleera.
---------"Like a princess in a fairy tale?
---------"Yes, like a princess in a fairy tale. You would do that for me, for the woman who saved your life?
----------"Yes, I will Marishka, we will be sisters.
Marishka hold Aleera with all her love. When she came here and told me, her emotion was bigger that the day she gave me children for the first time. Sometimes I feel she loves that girl more than her own children. But I can not blame her or Verona for love a child more than her own children. Our babies die since the instant they born, and they live with that pain.
Irena is very touch with that story. She passes the pages and saw drawings of Marishka, Verona, both with sadness looks in their eyes.
October 20 1483
Aleera is a fifteen year old girl now, full of life and beauty. Marishka and she are very close. Aleera feels so alone that she will do anything to be close to Marishka and Verona. My Verona told me that her life in the orphanage is very sad and difficult. The rumors that she is part of us are causing her troubles. Marishka told me that she wants me to make her my bride now but I can not, she is too young, we must wait five more years at least.
Verona also told me that Aleera have abrave spirit, she is very independent, strong, a girl with courage, curiosity and a very strong feeling of loyalty. That is very good because loyalty is very important to me. I think I will meet her tomorrow night, I want to know her, to see her long red hair and beautiful eyes, just like Marishka described her.
------------"Poor Aleera, I think she should have died with her parents that night. Dracula and his brides handled her since she was a little girl, they removed her will, and they showed her a false life, an eternity with a high risk. I feel now more pity for her than for Marishka.
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