Chapter 43 - Present and Future

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It's been a little over a month now since Zhan and I moved into the new apartment. The move itself went quite quickly. We had already bought the new furniture in advance at a furniture store and set it up right away. Our new fitted kitchen also arrived a week earlier. And so we only had to pack everything we wanted to take with us into boxes and take it with us. Everything else, the old furniture and a few small things, we donated to the social department store for people with little money. They were very happy about all the furniture in good condition.

The move also meant that I had to get in touch with Youn. He still sends me a box full of blood bags every two weeks and I had to give him the new address. Since I had decided to talk to him again on our long trip anyway, this was a good occasion to do so.

But first to something else. Apparently, word has spread by now who the new bearers of the peace treaty are and where they can find us. Almost daily, always in the evening when Zhan and I were still alone in the office, we received visits from vampires or pure blood werewolves who wanted to meet us. Fortunately, thanks to Youn, I had plenty of blood bags at home, as he also sent them to me when Zhan and I were traveling, and could offer a "drink" to our vampiric visitors. The werewolves had no demands except water to drink.

The vampires and werewolves were looking for confirmation that Zhan was really a werewolf and I was a vampire. That was relatively easy to prove and so they never stayed long. Which was especially good for Zhan, because he could hardly stand the stench of the vampires. But we understood the need and were happy to provide the proof.

One of the vampires who came to us had been very old. He said that at some point he had stopped counting birthdays and guessed that he was older than 1000 years. He looked like that too! He brought Zhan and me a gift. A very old book about legends and myths. Very interesting, at least for Zhan.

This old Irish vampire told us about a myth according to which a, and now it's getting really crazy, female elf gave birth to a baby that later became a vampire and begun a love affair with a werewolf. This half-vampire and half-elf creature is said to be unique and even capable of bearing children!

According to myth, this hybrid of vampire and elf, with a werewolf should enter into a special connection, thereby change very much and the two would then have immortal offspring together.

Not that I believe in elves, because then that would mean my mother would be an elf, but somehow that is very, very strange isn't it? Zhan thinks the myth is worth checking out. Sometime in the future he wants to go to Ireland with me and investigate this myth. He asked, "if something like vampires and werewolves can exist, why not elves?"

I had no answer to that. Because I would call my mother anything but an elf. But I don't really know much about these creatures either. And who knows what really exists in this world? So yes, Zhan and I will pursue this myth at some point in the future.

But for now, let's stay in the present, and there was the conversation with Youn. I had called him and asked if he could meet me at the office. He immediately agreed and said he would bring Wooseok.

That same evening, he and Wooseok then joined us in the office. Zhan had rubbed mint oil under his nose to deal with the stench, which I imagined I must have noticed myself a few times during the evening.

We sat in the office and were silent for a few minutes. No one really knew who should start or how. We seemed very embarrassed. And that although I missed Youn, despite everything that had happened in the past. I left all that behind me long ago and wanted to give our friendship another chance. Because apart from the things he did, he had always been my best friend and never let me down.

Finally, it was Zhan who started it all. He said, "It's nice that you had time to come here. How are you guys doing?"

Youn: "Thank you, we are fine. We didn't have anything planned for the evening and I was happy to get Yibo's call."

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