Valkyrie - The Vampire Princess

Chapter 41

Chapter 41

So I put my feet into my father's castle. I was approached by Valeska. She was standing in the main room. I came up to her humbly.

"Where were you? I was looking for you!" she asked and smiled at me.

"I went for a walk."

I hid the facts from her. I did not want anyone to know I was beyond the vicinity of the castle, disobeying my father's orders. It couldn't arrive to my father's ears or then I would be lost.

"Why were you looking for me?" I asked, looking at her face. Valeska glanced to the side before responding my question.

"It's nothing important. I just wanted to have a chat..." her shoulders vibrated during her answer. She almost gave a forced smile.

"I also need to talk to you," I said and bowed my face. My cold hands met each other for some moments. I felt I needed to expose my thoughts to somebody.

"What is worrying you?" Valeska asked as she approached me even more.

She put her hand on my shoulder excitedly. So I gazed up in her face.

"Come to my bedroom....there no one can hear us." she said lowly and glanced around. After that her hand held mine and we walked together by the castle corridor.

Then she opened her bedroom door and put me inside. She came in and closed the door again. Her room was like mine, it had the same objects. We sat on her bed, facing each other.

"I've been with Eros," like that I confessed to her as my head remained curved. My words sounded weak outside my mouth.

"How was it?" she asked, perplexed. Her hands touched her red lips. Valeska wanted to know everything. Our conversation needed to go into details.

Rapidly I left a sigh and answered with my sorrowful voice. My gray eyes observed my pale hands. "I asked him all I needed to know."

Her eyes expanded to me as she insisted in apprehensive voice. "And did you get answers?"

"Yes!"

My 'yes' sounded bitter. I curved my head again. My pain jogged my chest. I could feel it intensely within me. So I thought of Eros all over again. His face looked so perfect in my mind. It looked intact and untouched.

"Tell me everything!" she said enthusiastically.

So I continued saying with no contentment. "He felt attracted to me when I was human." My gray eyes met up hers. Valeska remained gazing at my miserable face. She looked unhappy for me.

"Did he declare that?"

"Yes."

"What a pity it is not possible any longer!" Valeska exclaimed and her hands touched her waistline. Her eyes fixed on mine.

"There must be some way, somehow I can undo this curse," I supposed as I heaved a sigh.

"What do you want to do?" her hands were away from her waistline and she asked.

"I want to find a way of becoming human again...to quit being a vampire," I said determined and my eyes shone in optimism. I needed to get it back into my life.

"Are you even willing to go on with it?" Valeska faced me surprised.

"Yes, I am, and today more than ever. And you will help me," I responded, serious. I had to find to an antidote for my life.

"How?" her eyes became larger.

"Don't you know anything? Isn't there some formula to reverse it?"

Her forefinger contacted her lips as she thought of something quick. "I know someone who might be able to help you with it," she finished in anticipation.

"Who?" I asked looking toward her.

"He is a wizard who lives on top of the rocks."

"How do I go to him?"

"It is not easy!" she warned me. "He has ferocious dogs. They protect him night and day and they don't allow anyone to approach him."

But I didn't fear her presage.

"I am immortal and I have no fear!"

"You run a risk of returning wounded and even disfigured," she stared at me sternly and continued saying. "Or even without your head."

Valeska's words didn't take away my thoughts of going to see the wizard. I was determined to pay some price to become human again, even if it would mean my flesh.

***

That night Valeska gave me all the necessary coordinates for me to put my plan into practice. She told me everything she knew about that wizard, though she never saw him in the flesh, but she had heard about him, since his existence on the planet Neptune.

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