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Hidden Secrets-Prologue
She saw him in the subway, all alone-a pitiful old man, leaning on a wooden cane. It was dark, the black sky deprived of the moon's light-no one would see this. She walked towards him, smiling an innocent smile. She felt her face go cold, but it always did before a feasting. She had no choice but to do what she must…to survive…to live.
"Excuse me, sir, but would you direct me to the City Museum. I'm lost."
"Oh?" the old man asked in a gruff voice, through his thick mustache. "Well, young lady I-"
But she already had her teeth in him. His voice chocked out as blood hurtled down from his opened mouth. The sweet juice filled her mouth and her pale, ashen face grew rosier. She felt energy fill her once more. When she had drained his supply, she let his empty corpse fall to the floor. She was done. She would not need to feast for another month. And she would not think about his terrified face again-she would push it to the back of her mind. She turned, her hair swishing behind her. And in the night, her sapphire blue eyes glimmered-…with tears? No one would ever know. For she was the last of her kind…
He saw it just as he entered the dark tunnel of the subways-the empty, hollow body. He knew before he reached that it had been the work of a vampyere. Hadn't he killed all of them off? He must have been wrong. There was still one left, and he would hunt it down. As he left, his voice echoed through the dark suburbs.
"I am Kenshin Himura, and I have sworn, on my fiance's grave, to kill all of these beasts-once and for all."
