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一 | ACT i (BEYOND BUCOLIC)
Chapter 7. The Lost Girl § the Ides of March
A FORTNIGHT HAD FLOWN BY FASTER THAT SHE KNEW IT, but then again time moved differently now.
And with the passage of time came change, this one being responsibility. With the week coming to an end, Victoria's command slowly began infecting all Delphi's thoughts.
She knew she couldn't delay it any longer, so on the night of March 15th, she began her hunt.
Perched atop a rooftop in the dregs of Seattle, two figures watching from the darkness, were Riley and Delphi.
Earlier in the week when she told him what she had planned, she got no reaction out of him. She didn't know where he stood on turning a human, nor positive or negative.
His silence and utter lack of acknowledgement seemed like opinion enough, but today at sunset when he followed her out of the basement without a word she let him.
Stood like statues for hours, the only thing to more were their eyes hunting for the target and her hair in the wind.
From the distance, she noticed a hunched figure in an ally picking at trash. Following her gaze, Riley headed in the direction.
She watched the interaction and then they were both up on the roof.
Riley had the poor girl's arms pinned in-between them both and eyes covers with the other. Grateful that she couldn't see her because what'd shed see was someone just at terrified as the struggling girl.
Delphi still wasn't quite used to all this, especially the bloodlust. Luckily she was sated for now, but that could change at any moment.
With each step, she saw the blood pumping underneath the soft skin of her neck. Her heart beating faster then normal and pumping blood everywhere.
Another step and the distance was closed. Chest to chest with the thrashing girl.
It would be so easy just bite into her flesh and not stop until her body dropped.
Venom pooled in her mouth and he looked up. She was herself reflected in the pitch black eyes of the boy who did what she was about to another.
And yet that was exactly what she did.
A lifetime passed in her mind, from the moment they were on the roof until she was bitten, but it was barely a millisecond and that scared her. That no matter how frightened she was at the moment, how quickly she was at the girl's neck and bit her without another thought.
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THE DAYS PASSED IN AGONY, FOR BOTH BREE AND DELPHI. The transitioning girl suffering in utter silence, which made it worse. Delphi watching over girl every moment she had free time.
One moment they were on the rooftop; the next moment they were at Victoria's. Delphi was getting herself ready of the investable wave of fury she would release for bringing the transitioning child to her lair. But all she said that when the second day nears completion, she would have to be moved to the abandoned apartment complex.
With a shoulder squeeze of congratulations, she wasn't seen for nearly a week.
The sun rose and sunk and dark thoughts began to invade her mind.
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Prophetic ▹ Riley Biers (Daughters of Lilith I)
Vampire❝ she never loved him until he was gone, and when she found him again he wasn't alone. his love for her was eternal, but easily hidden by one that's carnal ❞ ••• Delphi Frobisher always saw what was coming, it was a talent. But she never saw...
