I saw as Mary attempted to stand up from the bed, but Lucy stopped her
"You still need to rest…Let me get it for you" she said and then went to get Mary's bag.
"It's the red one" Mary called out and Lucy picked it up.
"So soft" Lucy said as her hands touched the strange material the bag was made of.
Before Lucy gave the bag to Mary, I asked to John "Why are all of you in this part of the world?"
John answered "We are from a small town in Nebraska, and the local high school organized a trip to Europe" he sighed for a moment and continued "We visited Barcelona, Paris, London, Rome. Our local guide convinced us that a trip wouldn't be complete without traveling to eastern Europe…We were in Bucharest when some of us were..abducted and brought here"
"I'm very sorry for that" I said "But as soon as you have rested and recovered, you will be free to go…of course none of you will remember what happened"
After that, Lucy handed the bag to Mary. My sisters and I waited in expectancy.
Mary took out a strange gray device that seemed to be made of metal, then she took out another object and I couldn't help but gasp as I saw a color photography displayed in the front of the object.
"What sort of drawing is this" asked a very shocked Erzsebet, as she extended her hand and touched it "It looks so real"
Lucy answered "Remember what I told you about photograph technology…it seems the technology has advanced"
I saw that in the picture there was a brown haired girl and two boys. One of them had a very pale face, and the other was shirtless and looked like a Native American.
"I just can't believe that their first glimpse to the modern world will be this crap" I heard Veronica say
"Before we begin" said John "Let me assure you than everything you will see, is the result of technology. There is no magic involved" He grabbed the object and said "Think of this as a theater, a play"
He stared at both Lucy and me, and asked "In your times there was already the technology of moving pictures"
"Yes" I said, as I remembered the exhibition of newest technologies in London.
He gave Mary the object, and she opened and extracted some sort of a shining round object
I stared at my sisters and said "Whatever we see here, let's see it in silence and ask questions once it's over" My sisters agreed and we waited in expectation
Despite John's early explanation, I was shocked when Mary inserted the round object in the grey device, and before any image would be seen, I heard a sinister voice "WHY… SO.. SERIOUS? HAHAHAHA" and then another voice as the images of a Man dressed in a very strange black…something, and wearing a mask appeared "From the director of Batman begins.. for the first time ever on blu ray"
I don't know what shocked me most of the rapid succession of images. If the explosion, the vehicles, that Lunatic with the face of a sinister clown. I wanted to ask many questions.
Finally the movie on the disk started, and in the three hours that fallowed we watched a…childish tale. However, more than the story itself, what caught most of my attention were the little things, the details of what a "normal" life was like. The behavior of people, the music they listened, the tools and technology people used on their homes.
As for the story, I found odd the concept of "vegetarian" vampires. I really wish it were possible for us to live on animal blood, but unfortunately only human blood carries the life which we crave. As dracula once said to me "The blood is the life...Because we are dead we thirst for life. The blood itself is of no use, but it's the life that it carries what we desire".
Seeing sparkling vampires was also strange, as well as vampires going to high school and passing as students. I wonder if there are other, what's the word? Movies of vampires, and if there are, how are we portrayed?
When the movie was over, I was afraid to ask my first question
"How long were we asleep?"
I stared at John and asked "What year is this?"
He simple said one word "2012"
I heard the shocked voice of Erzsebet "My God, we slept for far too long"
"115 years" I said to myself in disbelief
Veronica said "I am afraid the world has changed drastically in the past century, more so than in any other era"
Anastasia asked "There was one thing I didn't understand in the movie. I saw that often it was mentioned the word "human", as if making us vampires another species"
"And you aren't" asked a confused Michael
"No" I replied "We may be dead, but we are humans….I don't really like this description, but a vampire is just a human cadaver reanimated by supernatural means"
"She is right" Veronica said "In the old books, the distinction was between vampires and the living. The word human was never used"
What John said next only made me feel more awkward
"Speaking of humanity and other species, there is something you all need to know…It's better to say it now, and not that it blows into you when you go outside" He took a deep breath and continued "Two years ago, on December of 2010, humanity made first contact with aliens"
I stared at my sisters and saw the same confusion I was feeling, and it was Laura who asked
"You may have to forgive us for our ignorance on modern terms, but what is an alien?"