Melody of Eternal Night

Chapter Five

 Her eyes burned with the fiery ferocity of a thousand suns, her fists were clenched with the strength of a thousand men as her glass-like nails dug into her pale veiny skin. And Lestat seemed to lose his confident and gentle nature at her bitterness. He knew that Louis was in trouble, he could hear the thoughts running through her mind. The despicable things she longed to make a reality, the awful scenarios, sounds, sensations. It was all so different from her normal train of thought, which had normally lingered on her last memory of the sun or her wishes to frolic amongst the golden glow again.

No, this was something sinister. Something awful and familiar to him, this was pain. Agony and sorrow and loneliness and grief. Something he hadn't felt in centuries flowed deep in her mind and even into her unbeating heart. He couldn't find it upon himself to respond with the other's whereabouts. Instead he carefully guided himself and the angered woman away from everyone and everything. And he had decided that he would calm her a far distance from Louis. 

Melodia could feel herself being guided away from there, away from the source of her unbridled rage. But why? Why was it that she could not seek vengeance for her dearest friend? She had realized who was leading her away and slowly, she began to calm. She realized now that her anger was aimed at her brother, the one she'd swore to protect. No matter the cost- she had swore to the Lord above in which had now abandoned them- she would protect her brother.

Lestat could sense the anger slowly leaving the small woman, such a quick transition for such an unshakable fury. He saw the red flee from her mind and could hear her thoughts calm back to that soft breeze. And then it turned into deep sorrow. And that sorrow, he understood deeply, memories long since buried beginning to lightly surface. But that was not something that he was quite ready to relive just yet. So instead he simply held her hands, uncurled them gently, and looked into her upcast eyes. Those green eyes that gleamed like the leaves on the trees in mid-summer.

And for a moment, in the midnight's light, the both of them shared their silent sorrows in only their eyes. The world that they were to forever roam seemed to fall away from the both of them for a few moments. And then they broke out of their haven, out of their mutual understanding, to search for Louis and find a place to stay.

The place in which they had all found that night, was the neighboring plantation. The Freniere plantation. The Freniere's had always treated the Du Pointe family with respect, as deserved due to their status and such. Especially after Louis' wife's passing. But they had seemed wary of them on this particular dark night, not only were they wary of the two siblings. They were especially wary of Lestat.

And they were right to be, as Lestat was a new face and they had come in the dead of night. They had, of course, set the three of us up in their own rooms. And as the night turned to day, they had shut the curtains and hid from the light. Attempting to sleep without the comfort of their coffins, their resting places that welcomed the eerie silence that Melodia hated so. She missed the feeling of knowing that the three were together, for she never left the room that she was placed into during their stay.

She had fallen into a depression while the two men had desperately attempted to lure her from her room. But to no avail, she seemed to stay there. It was not until she had heard Lestat begin to become aggravated that she would not feed whatsoever, that she had emerged one night from her solitude. She looked starved. She looked truly and utterly dead, and the two men had taken it upon themselves to care for her through her fatigue and hunger.. Until they had been caught.. And were forced out of the Freniere plantation.. 

((Hello everyone! It's me, The Author! I'm so proud of how well this story is doing! Thank you to all my readers for continuing to support this story even if I do neglect it sometimes. One day I'd love to be able to turn this into a little series. I love Anne Rice's work so much and I'm so glad it's doing so well with my interpretations of the characters! I'm also happy I can do a convincing Lestat. I absolutely adore this Prince of the Night and I've been listening to an audiobook of his book "The Vampire Lestat" The sequel book to the Interview with the Vampire franchise. It's such a good insight to his character as a whole. Anyways, a new chapter should be coming out later this evening! Please stay tuned.))