She stood in the dorrway her cold, calculating eyes freezing me to the spot. She ran down to the basement, us right behind her in the dark. we stopped, unsure of where to go. Luckily, Dimitri was there, or I would have been dead in an instant. She lunged at me with such hatred that I was startled, yet again, Dimitri did the same even though he loved me. Dimitri didn't even attempt to pull out his stake, he just shoved her aside, pinning her against the wall. Dimitri knew I needed to talk to her.
" Lissa, tell me. How did you become a Strigoi?" I asked, pulling out a tiny tape recorder.
" Got bitten. Duh."
" Did we leave you to become Strigoi, or was compulsion used?" I asked.
"Compulsion. Why do you want to know?" She growled, baring her fangs, never taking her eyes off of Dimitri. I nodded to him, our conversation finished. I grabbed my stake and buried it right in her heart just as Dimitri jumped out of the way.
Then the weirdest thing happened. She started to glow. All the times I've seen a Strigoi be turned back to a Moroi, it had always been in a huge flash of light, blinding me. But this time, it started out as a soft glow, growing steadily and becoming an intense golden light. It kept on like this for what seemed like forever. My body was frozen, sitting on the cold floor of the dark basement, already used to the pungent odor of the rotting corpses from the Strigoi's last meal, but even though I had seen so many crazily strange things in my life, this one had completely blown me away.
Dimitri was also sitting there, his eyes wide and mouth hanging open. As a guardian, he was always ready for anything, but his training couldn't compete with this. His hand slowly uncurled from around his stake, and it clattered to the cement floor. The glow had still not faded, and was growing even brighter to the point where my eyes had started to water. I still didn't take my eyes off her.
A loud crack and blindingly bright flash caused me to shield my eyes and look away, my ears ringing. I looked towards where Lissa lay, her red ringed eyes now the normally intense, startling green, her skin white, but not chalky. I had given up before, but now I knew miracles really can happen.