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Chapter 5: Solace before Slumber
"Elise!" I shouted as I ran to her and grabbed her by the shoulders, her body like a shivering rag doll. Her shrieks echoed throughout her dwellings, and her words were distorted between gasps. "Elise, stop this madness! You will always live, but this is the price of immortality."
"Why? Why, why, why, why, why?" she cried out, her arms becoming reanimated as she reached for my arms and dug her nails into my skin. She then made a gurgled scream and began to kick at me, her hits like a child's.
"Calm yourself Elise!" I ordered as I moved her from my grasp and into my arms, her body crushed against mine. "Yes, this is vampirism young Elise, but you must not let the madness terrify you. You need to embrace the darkness, and—"
Just then a sudden vision came to me, one of myself many years before now.
"My Ra, are you stupid?" a faceless man said to me. I looked up at him, my vision in a red tint, and I saw that I was surrounded by midnight sand. In the distance there was a single pyramid, its size overwhelming.
"You need to take in this darkness," the faceless man continued. "Make it as yourself and live each waking moment in the embrace of the moonlit glory. The Gods command it of us, and so we must obey, understand?"
"Yes master," I whimpered, and without realizing it I was in Elise's dwellings again, my own limbs shaking. I dropped Elise and grabbed at the sides of my head, my mouth letting out a hissing gasp, my eyes bleeding without injury.
"YOU BASTARD!" she called me as I regained myself, the blood from my eyes licked away by my long tongue. "You did this to me. You turned me into this inhuman…THING!"
"No," I said as I licked away the last drops of blood from my cheeks and cleared my throat. "You are not inhuman, you are more than human. Any mortal would long to have what we have, and you are lucky enough to have the undead gift." Taking hold of her shoulders again I lifted her to her feet and steadied her, her body wobbly, her eyes still full of tears.
"Elise," I continued, "you need to take in the darkness. You need to make this into yourself and live every moment by the grace of the moonlight. The Gods command it of us—this thing that we are—and so we must obey without question. Understand?"
She looked up at me, her eyes fluttering, her limbs shivering. She then did something most unexpected: she placed both of her arms outward and wrapped them around my neck, her head rested on my chest, her perfumed scent filling my senses.
"Yes, of coarse Master Raziel," she said in a monotone voice. "I'm sorry, and I will do as the Gods want of us. Thank you so much for giving me this gift, and I will forever cherish it."
"Don't cherish it," I said as I placed my arms around her and pressed her against me. "Simply make it yourself, understand." She shook her head. "Now, we need to get you into a dark room, where is one?" She extended her arm out ward and pointed towards a hallway.
Carrying in my arms I searched each individual door until I came across her bedroom, a large space with very luxurious decorations. She had paintings of all sorts on the walls, a dresser that was half of my size and longer than my height, a desk with the modern box on it and letter keys, and a bed where she could rest. I walked her to her bed and began to lay her down, but she became instantly reluctant.
"No," she said and clung to me. "Sleep next to me. Don't leave me here alone Master Raziel."
"Yes, of coarse I will," I replied as I carried her into the bed with me. I covered her body with all of the bed cloths I could find and kept my arms wrapped around her. "I wont let you go Elise. Not until you want to rid yourself of my presence will I let you go."
She squeezed my arm to tell me she heard the promise, and then quickly her grasp became a soft touch, her body exhausted and in rest. I gazed at the curvatures of her face as the sun began to rise, and saw nothing less than artistic beauty as I myself fell into slumber that I had not knowingly experienced for ages.
In my last moments of awareness I saw another faceless figure, his location across from mine, two long blades in his hands. I looked down to see that I was holding my 'True Power' dagger, my red pendant emitting a glow. The faceless creature lunged at me, his blades pointed directly at me. As he came closer and closer I saw his features: his red eyes, his crooked teeth, his long black hair, and his garments, each piece the color red.
"He must die," I whispered in my slumber.