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Authoress Note: Thank you all soooooooo much for not abandoning me! I'm so happy! ::wipes tear from eye:: Well, we're slowly but surely building up to the climax. I can't wait. The blood's gonna fly!!
Day left the world in a blaze of crimson clouds and the warm breeze that began to sweep in from the water. Cain's golden eyes opened upon the night that had been his life for the last four centuries. There was refreshing air filthering through the tunnel and into his lungs. A sigh escaped him as he dwelled in the brief surrealism. It was beautiful. But something was wrong. It took a moment for the fog of the day to fade from his mind. There was no weight upon his form; which meant...
"Kitani!?" Cain suddenly became frantic, scrambling out of the tunnel he'd made as their refuge. She wasn't anywhere around! Where could she be?? His heart thundered in his ears, straining and paining him as it complained about the sudden burst of activity. His body was used to laying around in the apartment until it was ready to move properly. Getting the blood flowing through deadened vein took time. Time the ancient vampire did not have. "Kitani!?" He called over the river; but there was no reply. Resting his hand on over his face, a stinging appeared in the back of his eyes.
"I-I am sorry Kitani. I could not protect you." Tears rolled down his face for the first time in ages. He couldn't remember the last time he'd shred liquid sorrow for another being. It was just the effects of being alone for so long. Watching the world go past not touched by time in the least. He'd watched generations from the time that they broke from their mother's womb and took their first breath of air, to their last. In truth, many of the last breaths he'd taken witness to were reprocussions of his own existance. And never once had he felt sympathy for them.
Kitani had been different. She hadn't been the first death he'd seen that had not been his own doing, but in some way it was different from all the rest. Her life had been cut short over something she couldn't control. And it had jarred something within the onlooking vampire; so he made the choice to take the forgotten girl under his wing. "Kitani." Her name was enough to make another wave of anugish run through him.
"Master..." A soft voice came to his ears as a pair of arms wrapped around his middle from behind. "I'm here Master. I won't leave you." Cain stood motionless, stunned. The voice was delicate, the chime of a tiny silver bell. His hands overlap those that had encircled him. They were soft, long fingered hands that were attached to small wrists and lean arms. His eyes still hadn't moved from where the rested, watching the moon shimmer and dance over the surface of the river.
"K-Kitani..." The immortal's voice was stuck in his throat. For the first time in a hundred years, he was speechless. Whirling around suddenly, as if he were afraid that the arms around him would vanish as well as the body that they belonged to. But there she was, looking up at him with her odd colored eyes resting on her smudged face. Never once in his life had he felt a joy such as the one that gripped his heart. In a sudden movement, he wrapped his arms around her back and lifted her to hug her tightly. Pressing his face into her shoulder, he took a deep drag of her soil laced scent. It was her. She was alive and well. "Oh thank God." He whispered to himself. And there the anceint blonde vowed that he'd never let her out of his sight ever again.
Another Authoress Note: AWWW! That's so sweet! And Cain's gonna have a hard time living up to that promise. .