Valkyrie - The Vampire Princess

Chapter 29

Chapter 29

I was lying on the hard, cold stone which would be my new bed. I felt uncomfortable. I missed my soft mattress, my pillow and my blanket to cover me from my waist down.

My discomfort was greatest due to the fact that I had laid down without looking at Eros's eyes.

Since I came to that palace, I saw him no more. We had no contact after my arrival there, except when I saw him sleeping in the shape of a bat, but this meeting I did not take into consideration.

I thought about my mother, how she would be in that moment. The homesickness clutched my chest like a mill, as I wanted my mother to be here with me. A tear rolled down my face. Then I automatically stopped it with my own fingers.

When I realized the sleep would not come to visit me soon, I got up and walked to the open window. I did not see anything out there, only the ground covered with snow and a wind accelerating around the castle. I could almost touch the dark clouds through my bedroom window. However, I had no idea at what altitude I was and I estimated more than ten meters.

Even so I stood near my window until the darkness had gone away and a dark gray sky with its dark clouds emerged. The weather was cloudy and I realized it was another day. It had dawned and I had been standing at my window the entire night as I remained watching the infinite darkness.

After that I left my room and came to the main room, where a silence reined around the place. Everyone was still asleep.

Presently I walked through three different corridors. The last of them took me to the castle's central door. I decided to open it carefully, not making any noise to wake the others in the palace.

Soon I came across the outside of the castle. It all was very different from what I was accustomed to seeing on the planet Earth. I put my feet onto snow.

Without fear, I walked over it and ran into a huge forest, which seemed endless. There were large stones lost on the whiteness of the snow. I saw several brown trees with their branches completely dry. There was not even a life in that place, no green plant, no flower, no grass...

I continued to walk without noticing I was more and more distant from my father's residence.

My steps became strenuous due to the ice freezing my feet. I felt very cold. The temperature in the castle was nice, but outside of it, it was impossible not to experience the feel of a lot of frost.

With fascination, I stopped walking next to a lake with dark water. Its shade was a gray and navy blue. I touched my sensitive toes on it, causing small ripples in the lake, becoming a growing mill into it. I could see my face reflected on its water as soon as I looked into it.

It would be the last time I would see my own image. I felt a twinge in my chest, a strange pressure. It was as if something strange would happen to me that day.

But I did not know exactly what.

Afterward, I walked back as I was frightened at everything I had seen on the lake. Its water had turned into blood.

To top it all off, I had another scare when I turned to one side and saw Bizak in front of me. He had probably followed me there.

"Why are you scared?" asked Bizak, in a careful tone.

After his request, I looked back at the lake and its water returned to its normal color. It was just a mirage. I blinked.

"I saw blood in the lake," innocently I said him and I felt as if my breath were being torn out of my lungs.