15. Games
"Why haven´t you told me that before?", Lily yelled at Dracula. Her hands were clenched to fists to hide their trembling.
The vampire stayed completely calm. "I didn´t know that the inquisition would arrive that early." - "I didn´t know", she imitated his voice, "Of course you knew! Why didn´t you save me? I could have died!"
Dracula shook his head and began to circle her. "Lily, Lily, Lily... Just as I do you know that you had to survive. This little... uhm, well... game can´t kill you."
Her anger was growing over her head. "GAME! YOU CALL IT GAME?" Even she hadn´t expected that she could lose her temper in this way. Of course yelling at him wouldn´t change the situation, but Lily felt better.
"AND STOP CIRCLING ME!", she added.
Instead of stopping he moved even closer. Now his nose nearly touched hers. "I know something you don´t know", he told her and then paused.
"If you want to toy with someone then do it with your brides. I´m not in the mood for such games."
Dracula couldn´t help but smirk at her words. "I thought it is no game?", he asked, an innocent look in his eyes. Lily pushed him away from her. How can he play dumb? He knew that she was losing control over herself.
Lily sighed heavily, bringing her hands to her hips. "Tell me what you know", she finally said.
She had no clue what he meant. Dracula put his hands behind his back and started walking up and down the floor. With every step his riding boots made loud noises on the stone floor.
"Did you never wonder why you survived? As your mother died you should have died with her. Actually."
At the thought of her mother she calmed down. Lily would do everything for a few moments with her parents. "What are you trying to say?"
It seemed as if Dracula had waited for this question. He continued: "I want to say that you´re not human. Just like your mother. Liliana, tell me, you always wanted to fly, right?"
Of course she wanted. She barely knew a few people who didn´t long for that ability. She nodded.
"Your dream is going to come true." He noticed that she didn´t understand a word from what he was talking.
"At first I believed that you´re a normal witch. But as I looked closer at you, I could see Elisabeth Resitas in you. Your mother. And the fact that such a purity surrounded her made it impossible for her to be a witch. Liliana, I named you after her because you are the same creature that she once was."
Lily looked at the ground. In the last few minutes she had found that much about herself. And Dracula knows who she really is!
"What was she?", she asked.
But instead of answering he opened the door to the balcony. She looked into a cloudy afternoon. He held one hand towards her, motioning for her to take it. Only slowly she walked over to him.
"Whatever happens next, don´t let go of my hand. It would mean your death", Dracula said and looked down the balcony.
Lily´s eyes widened as she noticed in wich height they were. "You don´t want to... AHHHH!"
He had jumped and transformed. To her surprise she didn´t hang on his hand like a corpse. Suddenly he let go of her hand. She didn´t fall. She was... flying!
Lily stayed were she was and looked over her shoulders to see two giant wings that had grown out of her back. They were white and made of thousands of soft feathers. Lily didn´t have to move them - they did it on their own.
"You´re no witch. You´re an angel!", Dracula called to her.
Thank you guys for your reviews. Cassandra is weird, I know. But there are some people in this world that have a problem without any reason. She belongs to those people. But now tell me what you think about this chapter!
