Angel or devil?
NOTICE : I don´t own Dracula or any other character, except Embla
It was night...
It had been almost a week since I arrived and Dracula still hasn´t said a word to me.
I only see him at dinner (or breakfast for him) and then Aleera is the only one talking.
The first days she just glared at me from the other side of the table but now somehow she has won a bit of my trust.
I can´t belive she it really trying to be my friend... or something.´ Ithought as I walked along the long corridors of castle Dracula, my new home.
I was still wondering about that painting of the black boy in the arms of the woman. Who were they? And why did Dracula want to hide them from me?
Whithout I had realiced it, I had walked to Draculas sleeping quarters.
I have to ask him.´ I knocked on his door and then entered.
At first I thought it was empty before I saw his cloak lying on a chair beside a huge bed with drapery around.
Through the draperys you could see a body and I assumed it was him.
I walked over to the bed and moved the draperys to reveal Draculas sleeping body.
I was amazed that his hair and clothing were still perfect even as he was asleep and then removed my shoes to lie beside himand wait for him to wake up.
XxX
I woke up by him moving.
He was sweating and mumuring something. It was obvious he was having a nightmare.
I tried to listen to what he was saying while I tried to calm him but I only made out a few words. Father... die... alone... lost...
Then he shouted Gabriel out as his eyes shot opened and he sat up strait.
He stared right forward for a moment and then hung hid head low and said something I could not understand.
I took all my stength and placed my hand on his shoulder to let him know I was there.
He turned to me but with a face full of fear this time but turned calm again as he saw it was me.
"I... I am sorry, I just came in here to ask you something earlier but you were asleep and I didn´t want to wake you so I thought I should wait for you and then I fell asleep, I´m so sorry" I said before I even had time to stop myself.
"There is nothing to be sorry for, it is me who should appologise, you could not know that the stuff in the eastern tower was not for your eyes." He said slowly, as though it was painfull and with his beutifull accent giving it the special cling.
We locked eyes for a moment and it really felt like my dream from earlier comming true untill he broke the silence.
"You said you had a question for me?" he said and tucked of the strands of hair behind his perfect ear.
"Yeah, I saw a painting of a woman with black hair and dark eyes on. Who is she?"
He paused for a moment, slightly taken aback but then continued.
"Her name is Embla, she is my master and an old friend of my family." He answered, having a "faraway" look in his eyes.
"But the painting said Queen Embla..." I pressed.
"She is a Queen. The queen of vampires as well as the queen of darkness." He said and then got up and put on his coat.
"Excuse me" He said and bowed slightly before leaving the room.
XxX
Tonight was all hallows eve.
Aleera had told me earlier that I would attend to a cermony with Dracula, and herself of course, but I had never thought of it like this.
I was in the very middle of a giant ballroom, filled with vampires.
But what I had expected even less was to see that Dracula, Count Dracula was nervous for something.
After dancing something I asummed was some sort of vampire walz for about 2 hours we sat down by a long table.
In the end of the table was a throne, which I of course thought Dracula was going to sit on but appearantly he should not becuse he sat on the right side of it instead and gave me a sighn to sit beside him and Aleera sat on the other side of the table, looking slightly jealos.
When everybody had sat down a voice that sounded completly calm explaned that the queen had now arrived.
Everyone stood up and there was a light "tip tap" sounding from the stairs, and down came a woman in the most beutifull dress I had ever seen.
Her dress was completely black and as was her hair and her eyes dark as the night.
She gave sighn for us to sit and we did, and then she sat in throne in the end of the table.
It was so quite you could hear every single movement anyone made.
The woman rised her hands and gave away a clap and with that all the lights brust up, the music started to play again and now servants came out of the shandows and served them the most wonderfull foods and there was at least twenty servants who came up, first to the woman, and then passed on to the other servants with what seemed to be bottles of wine.
While eating I wondered why I fond this woman so familiar, and it did nit make it easier that she, like everyone else, where weaing a mask.
After everyone had eaten there was dance again, but the woman sat on an another throne, wich I had not seen earlier, and watched as everyone danced.
After the second dance I was left alone with Aleera while Dracula took care of som bussines.
"Aleera, who is that woman?" I asked Aleera in a whisper.
"Her name is Embla. She is our queen. She is the one human call devil." Aleera answered before leaving with some man who had asked her to dance.
Queen Embla´ kept comming in my head.
That was why she looked so familiar, she was the woman in the painting.
The song ended and everyone stopped dancing and moved off the dance floor, the most of the lights went out and everyone was quite again.
Dracula walked out in the middle and then towards Embla.
He bowed deep in front of her and held out his hand to ask her for the dance.
She rised and took his hand.
They walked out on the floor and then the music started.
They danced slowly with the music and Dracula, who had seemed the best dancer before now looked clumsy beside Embla.
She looked like she flew as she did every step with perfection and Dracula led her softly, it looked like they were made for eachother.
The music slowed and then stopped.
Everyone clapped their hands and Embla walked back to her throne, where she sat for the rest of the evening.
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