Aleera sits beside her mother and try to awake her.
------------"Mother?
Vera does not respond to her daughter's voice. Aleera fears that silence.
------------"Mother?
With pain in her heart, Aleera touches her mother's hands, both are cold and rigid. Vera passed away while she was sleeping, beside her daughter and with no pain. Aleera's heart and soul are broken, her tears express her pain. Her past die with her mother, all trace of humanity is vanished.
"Now you are free, you will find my father in the other side, the light will welcome you. My last breath of humanity has gone with you".
Aleera kisses her mother's hands, and cries on her body. The hours and the grief are eternal, but finally the night comes. Aleera buries her mother in the garden, the strength is one of her gifts and this is the less she can do for her mother.
"I can't pray for you, I can't ask for God's blessing nor pronounce His word, I am condemned, and far from His pardon. We will never see each other again, you are up there, in heaven, and if I die, I will go straight to hell. Now I will live only for my master and sisters, they are everything I have. Your nightmare about my death will never happen, I swear it to you. I love you mother, I will never forget you. I bury my past with you. And you will exist now, only in the silence of my memories. Good bye mother".
It begins to rain; the sky is crying with Aleera. She walks away under the rain, alone with her curse and her pain. In her heart, her mother's death is her fault.
After a few hours, Aleera arrives to Castle Dracula, wet, and very sad. Her sisters approach her with concern.
--------------"What happened to you?
--------------"Are you all right?
--------------"My mother is dead
--------------"What?
--------------"How?
--------------"She was ill, I found her, and she died in a deep sleep, beside me.
---------------"I am sorry Aleera.
---------------"If you need to cry...
---------------"I already did, I cried for her, I buried her and I am ready to start again.
---------------"That's not true, you are suffering, I can see it in your eyes.
---------------"You will never forget your mother Aleera.
---------------"I can't understand her love; she loved me all this time with the same strength, even when she knew that I was a vampire, that I was condemned.
---------------"You will understandher love one day, when you can feel the motherhood.
----------------"Maybe I can't be a mother. In 60 years I have not reached that blessing.
----------------"Be patience. Your heart, your soul and your body were in pain. Maybe your time is now.
Verona embraces Aleera and Marishka joins them. Dracula has listened all. Now he is more worried than ever for Aleera.
Later that night, Dracula found Aleera in the principal tower of the castle.
---------------"Nice night
--------------"Nice, but too cold
--------------"As cold as us. I am sorry about your mother, she was a brave woman. She fought for you.
--------------"She is in a better place now, better than us.
--------------"Maybe. But you still have a doubt in your mind. You can't understand her death. She was a good woman, an excellent mother. But she died in an extreme loneliness, abandoned by her friends, by all the people who knew her.
--------------"I was the cause of that.
--------------"But your mother was innocent; she did not have to pay for you.
--------------"No. But she did it. The love she felt for me condemned her at the end, and this is exactly what I cannot understand, her love and her sacrifice.
--------------"You will understand, you will be a mother someday.
--------------"If I can.
--------------"You will, you'll see.
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