Vera is in the library of Valerious house, waiting for Stefan Valerious, the elder and wise member of the family. After a few moments, he arrives.
--------------"Good morning Vera
--------------"Good morning Stefan
--------------"What is the purpose of your visit?
--------------"My daughter
--------------"Aleera? She is not a purpose she is a monster that must be destroyed
--------------"Stefan, please, you knew my daughter. There are still human feelings in her, I felt it yesterday
--------------"What do you mean? You saw her, you spoke to her!
Vera is afraid; she doesn't know how to answer.
--------------"Answer me
--------------"Yes, I saw her yesterday
--------------"Are you telling me that you had the chance to kill that monster and you didn't!
--------------"I'm her mother, I cannot kill her!
--------------"She is not your daughter anymore Vera! She is one of Dracula's brides; she is a demon, a heartless killer!
--------------"She can't help it, is not her fault!
Stefan is very angry and very confuse too.
---------------"I can justify your attitude because she was your daughter. I know your pain Vera, two of my children died last winter. Your daughter and her friends did it.
---------------"I am sorry
----------------"That is not enough for me. All my family is cursed because of Dracula. I don't know how, I don't know when, but we are going to eliminate them.
-----------------"I know my daughter, she did not killed me yesterday, we spoke and I saw… love, fear and… a cry for help in her eyes!
------------------"Your daughter is lost Vera. She is a killer
------------------"Stefan, I beg you, you are wise man, you know that my girl have a chance!
------------------"You are living in a dream Vera. But she killed one of my sons; she is my enemy, as well as all those who are next to Dracula. Don't dare to ask for compassion, much less help to recover her. Aleera is condemned to be a demon and to die in my hands if I have the opportunity.
------------------"So that means… that… I am alone
------------------"If you interfere you will pay the consequences. Wake up Vera; she is a monster, not your daughter!
------------------"What would you do in my place Stefan, would you hate and kill one of your children if one of them turns in to a vampire or werewolf?
Vera's questions have touched deeply the soul of Stefan, and the silence is his best response.
------------"Don't ask me to hate my daughter, I am her mother, and my task as her mother is to find a way to rescue her.
------------"You will die trying. Dracula will kill you or maybe her.
------------"She had the chance yesterday and she didn't
------------"You will not find help here Vera.
------------"I know, it was a mistake.
------------"Good bye Vera
------------"Good bye.
Meanwhile, in Castle Dracula, Aleera is alone with her thoughts, with her memories. Her past is alive in her mind. She can remember her childhood, she remember how much her parents loved her. She closes her eyes and the image of her father fishing in the lake, playing with her in the garden with the autumn leaves come so clearly, that se can almost touch him. Those memories are painful, she is crying now, alone, without the alertness of her sisters or the claims of Dracula.
"I still have human feelings; I must kill them if I want to be happy with this life, with this eternity of darkness. I must say goodbye to the past and devote myself to my master and my sisters. They are my family now, I accepted this life because I was afraid to die, I wanted lo live so here I am, a vampire, the youngest bride of Dracula. I must honor my new family, the darkness is my home and my master is my life. I don't need more, nothing more and no one else."
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