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"Here," Evan grunted tersely as he walked into the room and placed everything down on the bed. He looked at me, speaking through gritted teeth, "Anything else?"
"No."
He nodded at me before leaving the room quickly and standing on the other side of the door. Crossing his arms over his chest, he looked back at me one more time and I caught the annoyance in his expression. Rolling my eyes at his expression, I made my way across the room towards the blood bags before counting them out. Ten.
So they expected us to be here for a while then. Taking one of the blood bags, I handed it instantly to Care before passing her a second one. I looked away as she fed, scanning through the things on the bed.
They'd given me everything that I had asked for but where was the key. Rifling through some of the things, I found the small key and made my way over to Care. Slowly I crouched down to her level and unlocked her chains. As soon as the chains had fallen away from her wrists, I glanced down at the damage that they had done and let out a low hiss. Taking her wrists in my hands, I muttered a simple healing charm under my breath and watched her skin heal itself quickly.
She rose slowly from the ground and I watched her closely before she launched herself at me in a hug. I stumbled back slightly from the force but hugged her back before pulling back.
"How did they get you?" I asked instantly.
"They ambushed me," she muttered glaring at Evan's back before her eyes fell onto something on the bed and she furrowed her eyebrows. "You didn't ask for books did you?"
"No." I muttered, turning back to the bed and seeing a small stack of books on the edge of the bed. Quickly putting my phone on charge and pocketing the head phones that were beside the charger, I picked up the book that was on top of the pile. Glancing at the laptop screen, I tutted under my breath. There was no internet connection.
I noticed that book had a small bookmark in the middle of a page as Care sat down beside me. Turning back to the page, I glanced down at the title of the chapter and began to read it.
Magical Bloodletting
In historical terms bloodletting is the surgical removal of some of a patient's blood for therapeutic purposes. However it's magical use is similar although the blood is used to perform a spell.
In magical terms there is one known instance and this is the blood that was used to create the Originals, a family of invincible, powerful vampires. Although it appears that during this process something had gone wrong because the process was originally intended to create six vampires rather than the five that were created. It seems as though the sixth member to drink the blood laced wine, Julietta Paeterson, did not change but rather died due to it.
It is unknown whether she died as a cause of the spell that was cast or as a result of the magic that was laced in the blood. Nevertheless there has always been a lot of speculation on whether the magic within the blood caused some change to occur within the young girl. But the answer to that question still remains unknown.
