18. Nightmares

Dracula looked shocked. He didn´t expect Lily to wish for death. He tried to sound as calm as before: "Actually I wanted you to serve me for on week and then give you a soft death. But now... you´ll serve me for one month."

He still held one hand at Lily´s cheek. He looked deep into her nearly broken eyes. Softly he stroked her cheek, his thoughts spinning in his head. Lily pushed his hand away from her face.

"Don´t touch me, you disgusting bastard!", she cried. At the same time she wanted to feel his strong arms around her once more.

The vampire´s face stayed calm. "But a slave is there to be touched. One month!", he said slowly and then walked on to eye the other women, too. Lily´s tears started running out of her eyes again. He probably didn´t know what it all meant to her. Dracula killed her parents and she forgave him for that. She loved him so much. How could he do that!

"Witches!", the inquisition called to them, "Go upstairs and find yourself a blanket. I don´t think that there are enough ones but... that´s not my problem." The man smiled all over his face. Lily and the others did as they wished.

The tower wasn´t that big as it seemed. It was mostly made up of a stairs, stairs and again stairs. Finally they arrived on top of it. Everything in there was dark and wet.

Lily hugged herself while walking to warm herself. It was like a dungeon. And where are the chains?, she thought. But instead of chains everyone got a thin blanket. Nearly everyone. Cassandra was the last one and didn´t get a blanket. Lily couldn´t help but feel pity for her.

Then the witches were ordered to sleep. The next day much work would wait for them.

Noone had enough space to lie down. The room was that tight that everybody had to sit or lean against each other.

Lily wrapped herself tightly in the blanket. But she could have also let it be. The fact that they had to sleep on the floor made it impossible for them to warm up. She could feel chatter her teeth. Like fog her breath left her lips.

As she looked around she noticed that she lay next to Cassandra who was shivering from the cold. One half of Lily told her to ignore it and let her freeze to death.

But the other half made her do something that noone else would do. After all Cassandra had did to her she removed her blanket and laid it on her enemy´s sleeping form. The low temperature could be dangerous for sleeping persons. So Lily tried to stay awake.

She was freezing even more but she was also tired from the journey to the Witch Tower. She slowly closed her eyes.

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"GET UP NOW!" Lily´s eyes shot open as she heard the roar. She touched her bare underarms to feel that they were as ice. Like Dracula´s. No! She wasn´t allowed to think of him anymore!

Quickly she jumped to her feet, just as the other women did. Her eyes wandered over to Cassandra who yawned and let the blanket slide from her body. She knew that Lily had given it to her but she neither thanked her nor gave it back.

Lily looked sadly at the ground. Then it came back into her mind: she was now Dracula´s personal slave. Maybe if she pleased him with her work she could get a new blanket?

This day the room wasn´t so dark as the day before. For the fact that it had no window it was very light in there.

The inquisition read out the list all their names. The called person had to step forward and receive new clothes. "Resitas, Liliana!" She heard her name. Lily hoped she would get some warm clothes with long sleeves.

Her bundle of clothes looked different from the other ones. She unfolded it to see that it was a dress. Dracula must have chosen it for her because it was just the way he liked it: revealing.

After she had put it on all the looks were on her. The dress was black and long with a leather corset. There were cuts in sides of the skirt which showed her whole right leg and parts of herleft one. It had a low cut at the front and her back was almost completely bare. Her pale arms shown fully.

When the other women are already staring at her what will Dracula do then? Lily knew that she would find out sooner thanshe likes.

Phew! This time I tried to make the chapter as long as I could. At least you´ve waited long enough for it. R&R!