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Chapter 5

Memories Unknown

I was woken up by Alice saying my name quietly, she tapped me on the arm and smiled sweetly when I awoke. She inquired if I was all right, I answered yes, quite puzzled and she explained why she had asked.

'I am sorry I have woken you but you have been sleeping for over two days, we were all worried. Zhuzhen has gone home, but he sends his best wishes on your search. I have been trying to wake you since yesterday morning but to no avail, are you sure you are well?' She felt my head with the back of her hand as if I were a child and she laughed. 'There isn't any difference, but have you fed?'

I looked away from her, I had been sleeping so long again and I didn't realise, maybe I did need to feed, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I think she understood that and pricked her finger with a needle, a droplet of blood appeared from the wound. I was disturbed, she wanted me to drink from her? I wouldn't do it, never.

'Look just take a little, you know it won't hurt me. I have done it before for you, take it as a taster so you have the flavour again. Please do this for yourself, do it for Maggie, she wouldn't want to see you ill.'

I still didn't want to do it but she offered it to me again and I took it. The taste of it was beautiful and I was careful only to take a little of her blood but I felt so much better. Alice herself even looked better for it, and she was smiling again as she was about to wrap a plaster around her finger. I motioned her to stop and held her finger gently and licked the wound, mixing it her blood with a minute amount of mine, making the wound heal instantly.

She was shocked at first but thanked me for it. She was just about to leave when the picture in the photo album appeared into my eyes, I called her back and showed it to her, and instantly she told me who it was.

'Oh that's Maggie as a kid, she looked so cute then, aww, everyone is so sweet when they're young.' She grinned at her childhood memories. I asked her to sit down and look through it with me, of course she obliged as Arianna was a sleep in the next room and she was free until she woke up again. We flicked through the pages when my eyes fell onto a specific picture of a young girl, who looked around the age of six and had long hair. I gasped with horror, the girl from my dream.

'From your dream? How curious, surely you have been though these photos before?' I shook my head in reply. 'Well I have no idea how you saw her then, how about you saw the child in her memories?' Again the answer was no, I had never seen her memories. 'Well I don't know then, you must have got a message or a memory from some who was thinking about her when she was young.'

'Yes that seems to be the most probable answer' we decided to go down stairs and sit in the sun, taking the cot with us so the baby wouldn't be left. The thoughts were roaming around my head like mad druids chanting around in a wood, but they made no sense at all, I couldn't figure them out at all.

It puzzled me for the next week that I was there, and yet I could not find what it all meant, in a way it scared me. Was this a sign that my love was alive or just a passing memory? I didn't know and I was sure that I would only find out if I found Margarete.

Yuri and Alice were so kind to me, Alice did not tell Yuri of her blood letting but I was grateful for it. I may not have survived another day, but again she had saved me. I loved her for it, though only in friendly adoration. How could she care so much? It was a wonder to me.
I knew that I had outstayed my welcome, though they never would have said anything to show it. I was fine with the idea, I had stayed here long enough and I had to find my beloved. I didn't think I could wait much longer anyway.

I had packed all my belongings into the little suede bag that hung by my waist, it was as light as a feather, mainly because there wasn't much in it, besides those things never weighed down anyway.

When I went down stairs, Yuri and Alice were talking quietly. They saw that I had packed and looked unhappy. Maybe they didn't want me to leave, but I had to I had to find her, my love, my Margarete.

They agreed that I should start my journey as soon as I was ready and that I was welcome to there home at any time that I needed company and someone to talk to. I was heartened by this and I smiled. They were so kind to me, and I could give them nothing, or maybe I was in a strange and unknowing way.

I gave Arianna my gift, it was like the one I had given Margarete, a vial of my blood, that would protect her from her fears and pains. It would also help her if she was injured, because my blood had the healing properties of an elixir.

Yuri and Alice were honoured that I had given he such a gift. They loved me for it, though I had no idea why. I was embraced by Alice for what it seemed like ages, she whispered that she would always be there for me and she kissed me gently on the cheek.

Yuri too hugged me, it was not rough and quickened like many of those days but a gentle embrace of a brother and great friend. He too gave me the usual words of comfort and visiting arrangements but he also added.

'You know you will find her, she loves you more than anything. She may not show it sometimes, but she does, with all her heart. You will find her and again you will be happy.'

I was grateful for that statement and waved my farewells, I left them standing at the door arms around each other, smiling and waving for my safe journey.

....Margarete... my love... I will find you........