Resident Evilove (Lady Alcina Dimitrescu - Resident Evil)

Chapter 22 - Revenge and Rescue

For over half an hour now, and without any explanation, the hordes of Lycans, yet numerically superior and having gained the advantage in the battle, had suddenly retreated and dispersed throughout the valley. This behavior had plunged the survivors of the castle, like Heisenberg and Donna Beneviento, in the most total perplexity. They suspected that Miranda was behind this sudden change, but why? She could have continued the attack, so ... what was she waiting for? Not being an idiot, Heisenberg stood at one of the castle lobby windows, peering outside and remaining on his guard. Miranda was up to another dirty trick, he was sure of it. His outfit and his face still soiled with the blood of the many Lycans he had killed during the battle, Karl lit a cigar which he smoked without saying a word. Further into the room, Donna sat in a seat, readjusting the dress of her doll, like a child with her toy.

During this time, and although the changing attitude of the lycans had surprised them as much as the others, Lady Dimitrescu and her two daughters were also plunged into a completely different state. A great feeling of pain and sadness, after the loss of the youngest daughter, Daniela, who in a desperate act to protect her two sisters, had lost her life. On her robe, Alcina bore the traces of blood of her battle victims, but now didn't care.

Gathered in the castle's family chapel, silent, dark and cold, Alcina and her two grieving daughters stood before an empty stone tomb. Unfortunately, having no body to bury, Alcina placed Daniela's pendant, adorned with the green gem, in the stone coffin which would henceforth be her eternal home. Standing by the grave, Cassandra could not contain her tears and clenched her teeth, supported by her big sister Bela, who although wanting to remain strong and dignified, could not hide the sadness that overwhelmed her. Leaning over the grave, after having placed her late daughter's pendant there, Alcina remained silent, dull. She too had cried as the dried marks on her cheeks could attest.

_ "Dear ancestors ..." sighed Alcina in a prayer, his hands clenched on the edges of the coffin "... please welcome my daughter Daniela among you. May she rest in peace forever .. . Daniela ... may you one day forgive me for not having known how to protect you as I had sworn ... "

With these words of excruciating pain to her heart, Alcina closed the stone lid of the coffin, allowing Daniela to rest forever in the Dimitrescu chapel. But now anger had taken the place of sadness in the countess. A powerful desire for revenge, which not even the most divine of bloods can satisfy. But Alcina also felt the effects of this hatred on her mutation, and felt that it could manifest and change her at any time. No, she thought to herself ... now is not the time to lose control of myself ... otherwise, I might not be able to bring revenge on my daughter as it should be.

After bidding Daniela a last farewell for the salvation of her soul, Alcina stepped back to make way for Bela and Cassandra who in turn came together to collect themselves to bid farewell to their little sister.

_ "Dear little sister ... we thought we had eternity together in front of us ..." said Cassandra first. "But your loss reminds us that even immortality does not protect us from pain ... to imagine this eternal life without you is a torment, but we will do it anyway, because we know that you will always be with us, little it doesn't matter where you are."

Cassandra had spoken in a painful, trembling voice, and then let Bela speak.

_ "Do you remember that song, Daniela? You loved listening to it because you said it reminded you of the three of us. That no matter the distance and the place, we would always be together, united by blood and love."

Cassandra guessed very well which song it was. Together, the two sisters, supporting each other in this most painful mourning, gently began singing this song, one last time for Daniela.

_"So close, no matter how far

Couldn't be much more from the heart

Forever trusting who we are