13. Beauty Of The Night

The previous nights seemed more than strange to Lily. These were two nights she had spent with Dracula. She had never expected that inside of him was still a human being. But this person was hard to see.

There she stood on the balcony. Everything around her was dark. Only the stars and the full moon spent light.

"Good evening, my love", a voice whispered in her neck. Dracula laid one arm around her shoulders, pulling her close. Lily rested her head on his shoulder.

"I want to thank you. You were so gentle. I just..."

"Hush, my dear. You don´t have to." Then a silence got between them. They just stood there and watched the night.

"I know a better place than this one. Do you want me to show you?", he finally asked. "Yes", came her simple reply. With that he lifted her up in his arms and took off into the sky. She quickly closed her eyes. They flew over the forest and hills. After only a few seconds they had left castle Dracula far behind.

"Open your eyes. You´re missing the best", said Dracula and looked down at Lily. She still held her eyes shut, scared of the bat that carried her.

It didn´t take much longer and Lily felt brave enough for looking. And what she saw there was more than amazing: far below the dark trees passed like little flowers. The stars above looked like diamonds.

As the forest had passed them by they landed near a lake. Bigger. Near a sea. There he led her down and turned back into his usual form.

The two of them laid down on the cool grass. Wrapped in each others arms they felt only warmth. Like a black velvet sea the water made small waves. It was just ...romantic?

"How do you like it here?", asked Dracula.

"I love it", Lily answered her own and at the same time his question. But she added something: "Nearly as much as I love you."

That made him look directly into her eyes. Somehow he knew that she told the truth but still, deep inside of him, he didn´t care about that. Of course he didn´t show that but replied: "I love you, too."

Lily kept talking about what she felt in her heart: "Everytime you hold me it seems like heaven to me. You don´t know how much it means to me that you feel the same."

Dracula smiled. For her it was a smile that thanked her for loving him.

How stupid is she? Is she really that naive or does she only pretend it?´, were his thoughts.

Never doubting his words for one single second she relaxed completely against him and leaned against his chest. It was like a dream. Being with the one she loved in such a wonderful place couldn´t be reality. She felt at peace.

He pulled her closer and placed the softest kiss in the world on her lips. Lily smiled at that.

Toying with this little girl was more than fun to him. Suddenly it seemed to him as if light was wrapped around her. As soon as it came it was gone again. Such purity couldn´t come from a witch.

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