"I'm scared Marcus.We can't lose Vnym...we can't" It was the first time I heard my mother cry.From going in,my right foot faltered,fingers that about to knock froze on mid-air.
I didn't know what have gotten unto me.Maybe the feeling that something's going to be spilled out made me hid myself on the right wing of the door and listened.I know it was improper to eavesdrop and it was so not me but... I can't help it.My heart was already on frenzied beats.
"The witches wont find our daughter,Sophia.I assure you that.Tomorrow would not make any difference from the last lunar eclipses. Vnym will be turning eighteen tomorrow...She will have my gift..."
"Marcus...?" there was a shed of fear and pain in my mother's voice.
Lose me?
Lunar eclipse?
Just what are they talking about?
The fear on my mother's voice left a big question mark on my head.
Okay,reality check.
I knew I wasn't normal as normal as my friends were.
Something weren't right.
My extraordinary speed.
The silvery color of my skin.
The sharpness of my senses.
I knew I was different.
And I have the strongest hunch I'd find the answer to my unanswered questions now by this... eavesdropping to my parents conversation.
I held my breath...afraid to even make a noise.
"It was bound to,Sophia.You knew there was a purpose of us being Vnym's foster parents..." my father spoke gently.
Gently yet strong enough to break the strong walls inside of me.
Foster parents?
"I can't lose you Marcus...I can't lost you both"
"Sophia listen, we may succeed in hiding Vnym from the Merganas tomorrow just like the pasts, but we can't hide her from them for ever...As the Pangat of this clan,I have to do the right thing to safeguard the rest of our kind"
"There's another way,Marcus.Find the mark..."
"To find the mark is to send Vnym to her death..."
"The other option, Marcus.If the mark marry the key...if the mark,marry our daughter..." my mother's voice was desperate.I was desperate too.
Mark.
Key.
"Sophia..."
"If the marriage will be consummated at the height of the lunar eclipse,the curse will be broken.Vnym's blood wouldn't be as pure as fire..."
I heard no response from my father.
Who was that Mark if I am the Key?
Key to what?
"Key to Samara's coming back to life,Vnym.You can come out now..." I heard father said from my back.
I jerked.
Why, I almost forgot my father has the ability to hear thoughts.
I was given no option but to stepped inside. I greeted my mom with a kiss.Doing that,my eyes stung.If they weren't my real parents,then I should thank them for being the best foster parents a daughter could not easily have.
"You've grown too good a daughter to us as well,my child.And I know the time has already come for you to know who you really are..."
"Marcus...?" Mom was trying to stop father,I could see that.
I held her hand.
"It's okay,mom.I already knew I was different from you.Just please, let me know who I am. What I am" I gently squeezed her palm.
Her eyes sparkled with untamed tears.
"Whatever words you may hear today,I want you to know that we loved you like you came from us.We loved you like ours..." she gently touched my face, loneliness became too evident on the way she looked at me.
I nodded.
"We were those what they call...outcasts..." father said after a full minute of silence.
"Outcasts?" I mimicked.
"We were once a Ramata before we ended up being that and chose to live as humans_"
"Ramata?"
"Vampires" he answered.
I thought I just heard the words wrongly...but seeing that expression on my father's face,I know I wasn't.
"V-Vampires?" I felt my throat suddenly became dry.
"Not the kind of monsters you are thinking,my child. Ramata don't drink on human blood.They fed themselves with the blood of animals. Until a half-breed broke the sacred law...Samara"
"Samara?"
"Merganas' queen.Merganas were witches until Samara turned them into a new breed.Turned them to be the kind of vampires who fed on human blood_" my father paused.
"They live on dark magic...They were powerful witches..."mom supplied.
I could not believe I was hearing these.
"What kind of a monster I am then?" I asked.
"Both."
