Erik led faith out of the church leading faith by the elbow.
Thoughts where running through his mind.
Your abandoning Christine
you don't love her anymore?
Where is faith going to stay?
Your betraying Christine
She will never come back now.
This is all your fault.
He answered them all with ones like
no I'm not!
I will always love her!
I don't know...I can't very well abandon her to become a nun!
No i am not. She will admire the kind deed i am doing.
No I am not!
Was she ever coming back?
Go to Hell.
Faith was panicking Could she trust him? She didn't even know his name! Here she was going to STAY with the man she couldn't see and not even know his name! What would her mother think? She patted a red curl over her eyes. Her heart was racing. She was so afraid that the man would hear it.
"Where do you live?" she asked, trying to mask her fear.
"Near the Opera. That is why I was there the other night."
"Is that where I was..." she mussed.
"I thought it smelt like a theater."
"Who is this...Man who left you there?" He said. The already present distaste for the man flaring slightly.
"You can say Lover. Everyone else does."
"Mademoiselle."
"Faith."
"Faith. I am not everyone."
"I know." She said.
And she did, she had found that whenever she was little that everyone had a color. A mage told her mother that she could read peoples auras. Her mother dismissed it as blasphemy. Whenever someone came near her. She could see the persons color forming in her mind. That is how she knew who was there. The man's color.. Was Different. She couldn't put her finger on it. Williams was different too. But not in the same way.
William offered Faith. Excitement, Love, Passion, Adventure. He made her feel alive.
It was intoxicating. Though now she knew, that adventure dies with the passion. And Williams passion died a long time ago. He grew tired of her. She knew it.
Erik was still thinking of what to do. He couldn't let her sleep in the living room. How horrible could he be? But definitely not in his... Where would she sleep? The coffin? I think not.
The Library. He could bring in the couch. And make it feel like a bed. The girl was blind. How could she know? There. Problem solved.
And its only for one night. As soon as I can find her a decent place to stay.
He led her through the side door into the opera. Her senses where keen. He knew it. Everyone knew that blind people could hear and sense things that normal ones couldn't!
He couldn't let her feel the draft of the large front doors of the opera.
He led her quickly, hoping she wouldn't smell the costumes and cheap perfume. The trademark smell of the theater.
Faith did of course.
"Do you work with the theater closely?" she asked.
Damn it. He thought
"yes. I do. Actually." he said. He wasn't lieing. He did.
"That explains a lot." she said smiling. He began franticly thinking of how he was going to get faith down to his house. Without
Her noticing they walked down almost five flights of stairs.
The Smell of the Lake.
And The fact that they had to get IN the boat to get across the Lake!
The solution soon came to him. But he didn't like what it was. He decided to go along with it.
All Faith Remembered was a sudden loss of footing underneath her and Erik giving out a sharp shout. And her falling, then everything just...went away.
