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As soon as they go away I rush toward Dimitri to check him and he hold me in a tight hug.
" Roza, what were you thinking? Never do it again " he says holding me even tighter.
" I would have never left you behind, how are you? " I say while moving away slowly checking the extent of his injuries.
I notice the amount of blood on the neck and the arms, he tries to reassure me: " it's nothing, it no longer burns " and while he says so he took my face in his hands, stroking it gently. I lose myself in his eyes doing the same and then I get closer to kiss him. It starts gentle but it doesn't need long to become passionate and needy, after a couple of minutes I find myself pushed against the same tree as before. When we finish the air we separate and he goes down kissing my neck, I can't hold the moans of pleasure and it is in that position that I notice of something wrong. In the heat of the kiss I had passed my hands against the wounds removing the blood but there weren't new, indeed, the skin was smooth without any trace of cuts.
" Where exactly have you been hurt? " I ask moving away slightly to make sure it wasn't my imagination, it was impossible that a wound that produced so many blood had vanished in so little time. He leaves my neck and brings his hand to his neck to find it smooth "it's impossible" he tries to examine his arms too but he gets the same result. There's only one explanation that comes to my mind but I don't like it at all, the man was feeding Dimitri with his blood when I arrived and the strigoi heal faster than dampirs and morois, he doesn't look like one but I don't know how much time was needed to complete the transformation.
" And if you were transforming? " I ask and I can't help but get away a little while I'm saying so.
" It's not how it works, the transformation is immediate and.. "
" What? " I insist when I see he's not continuing.
" I know I sound crazy but they weren't strigoi "
" More crazy than me seeing ghosts? " I try to lighten up the mood obtaining a laugh from both of us.
Despite this there's still a tense atmosphere, the fact that headless bodies surround us doesn't help.
" How have they managed to kill so many strigoi? By beheading? " I knew exactly how hard was to detach the head from the body, and I've done it to one strigoi with the help of my friends.
" With bare hands in a couple of minutes they've dealt with all of them " I turn shocked towards him.
" This is impossible ".
" I agree. I don't understand why they let us go ". The most reasonable option is that they need us for something, even if it's hard to believe; there's still the option that they're good and they've done it just to help but I doubt it. There was something dark in the woman's eyes, they didn't have the characteristics of a strigoi but something laid under the surface, something evil and mysterious.
I was still mulling when Dimitri's voice interrupts me: " we should come back, have you at least warned someone of your crazy rescue mission? " he asks starting to walk towards the academy stopping just to take back the stake that had fallen during the battle.
" Of course not, it wouldn't have been crazy otherwise, and they would've never let me go ".
We walk in silence for a while but I'm filled with doubts.
" Do you thing that we did well to let them go? ".
" We didn't have much of a choice; they were too powerful for us ".
" But if they weren't strigoi, what were they? " I ask hoping that he has an answer but his dejected look answers before his words: " I hope someone at the academy knows how to answer your question ".
Here's the second chapter, I know is short but this is just a transition chapter that explain what happened in the character's point of view. Again I apologize for the mistakes and I ask to everyone who reads if there's something that sounds wrong, english isn't my first language so spotting mistakes is really hard for me.
Let me know what do you think of this story, I think I'll post the next chapter soon enough. It all depend when I'll have time to translate it.
