Storm

Part 2

Violet, I will go with you. I will protect you!  Your younger brother shouted, running out from house. He was so fast that you barely grabbed his arm to avoid collision. He was so small. He only reached your belly. You carresed his face and leaned over to him, trying to smile.

That's so sweet but there's no worry. I'm only going to visit a landlord and sell some herbs.

He was only seven and there was obviously no chance that he could protect you and he was actually the one that needed protection. So you promised to come back as soon as possible and you asked him to take care of father who was still weak. Customers weren't coming that often to your shop and selling things at the fair was giving bigger profits. And of course you wanted to know if owner of tavern was also bothered by thugs. It's been many weeks and you wondered what happend with their bodies after being eaten alive by that vampire. It was your the biggest secret. The other girl would probably tell everybody what happend, shaking with fear every next day but you wasn't the most fearless person in the world. In fact, consideration wasn't in your nature and most of people from village thought that you was just foolish girl. When you already came to place where robbery took a place, there was no sign of blood or anything that could indicate any scary event. It looked like nothing ever happend there. You wished to know what vampire did with bodies. You wanted to ask him about so many things. When you appeard at fair, you arranged herbs from box on counter. Not so long later a group of older women approach you, asking about prices of your products. They were usually buying mint or camomile but the most expensive thing you was selling was lavender because it wasn't that easily avaible. When two women continued discussion, you just looked at tavern from afar and you realized that after all this time there was nobody who entered this place. You went there when you sell everything. Doors were closed. You looked at the window. There was nobody inside. Owner's house was another building connected with tavern. You knocked at door but there was no response.

Sir, are you ill? It's me. Violet. I wanted to talk. You said, knocking at the small window. Wooden stairs were leading down to basement and doors to that place wasn't fully closed. Your heart stared beating fast when you slowly came in. You could only notice a table and shelf in this darkness but sight of broken glass on a floor was disturbing. Musty smell out there was enough unpleasant but now you felt a real, body odor. At the sam time when you covered your mouth, you saw somebody's legs in boots. You took one move. Dead body behind a shelf was full of dried blood. Man's throat was pierced by broken bottle and you barely recognized landlord's face.

Oh, God.. You coughed out, almost tripping over a table. Before you shouted with horror, somebody's cold hands covered your lips. You started screaming even more but your voice was too muffled and your body collided with a wall.

Stop screaming. You heard male voice. You could only see his eyes in darkness and outline of his face. His right eye was brighter and it was unbelievable how vivid it was in such a dark place. They're coming for you. He added, raising his head like he heard something. Strong grip around your waist made you feel like you lost balance. You closed your eyes, feeling dizzy. Sudden wind hit your cheeks and that's when you felt something cold behind your back. It was a wall outside tavern. It was actually different place at the bottom of hill. Vampire's eyes stopped on your face and you felt a warmth in your chest. You was aroused and at the same moment calm inside. He slowly moved away his hands from your mouth but didn't stop looking at you. Now when nothing around was happening and you didn't fear about your life, you could look at him closely. Perfect, pale skin, long and slender nose, small lips. Contrast between his raven black hair, black clothes and bright skin and eyes was making him look like somebody from other world. And that's who he really was.