Walking with the Vampire |COMPLETE|

49. Isolation

Nicholae stood before the council the second time that week. In total this would be his third summoning by the which council to question him about summoning Valentina against her will.
He wondered if they thought his answers would change with the repetition of the same damn questions.
'I do not believe I was successful as she did not come to me.'
They asked about the summoning yet again.

'So How did you find her body?'

'I went looking for her.'

'How is it that she was the only one who's body wasn't found at the base of the trees like the others.'

'I simply claimed the body of my wife.'

'With the intention of necromancy!'

'With the intent to mourn and preserve her. That is not a crime.'

'Why weren't we informed?'

'I'm a Tchkovsky and she's my wife.'

'You've already mentioned that.'

'You have the same questions.' He drenched his voice with polite sarcasm.
They had already investigated Valentina and from their frustrated faces Valentina hadn't given anything away.
Half an hour later, the Coven guards deposited Nicholae outside the gates of the council where he continued his journey to his shabby abode on foot.
In the last few days of residing in the abandoned two storeied excuse for shelter, the sight of it only caused him to feel sorry for himself.
Today, however, was different because greeting him was Osei, Malaki, Loki, Cayden and Fauna.

'What took you so long.' Cayden greeted him tastelessly pointing out his lack of transportation.

'I stopped to take in the sights and then I got to thinking...' Nicholae replied.

Nicholae went straight towards the black Loki and laid himself on his back before the great wolf.
'Loki do me a favor and just step on me. Or better yet kill me.'
Fauna looked horrified at his request, even Cayden looked confused.
Osei picked Nicholae up by the collar.
'You think you've got problems? At least yours there's a solution in sight. I have two women back at home who both want answers and promises I don't have.'
Osei put his hands on his waist in thought, and then he took Nicholae's former position.

'Loki, do the honors.' He said.
Malaki, the white wolf sat on Osei instead.
They enjoyed watching Osei struggle beneath the weight of the other wolf.
In that shared moment of laughter, It dawned on Nicholae that he did have friends in the people present with him today.

'I meant to thank you for getting the message to Valentina on time.' He said as he offered Osei a hand.
'It's nothing. Val is virtually family, we want what's best for her as well.'
Still Nicholae appreciated Osei working with him in this moment in the slumps.

'Give me one second, I need to change out of these and then we can go.'
They'd come to escort him to Osei's land so he could compel Jeffery to tell them the truth about the witch who was behind Osei's currents predicament.

Nicholae pulled off his top in the privacy of his room and changed into more comfortable clothes. Fauna let herself in.
'My Lord? I brought you something to feed on.' She said showing him the bottle that she wasn't supposed to have.
'It's alright. I don't need it.'
He remembered the rat he'd trapped earlier that morning. It was meant to be his snack because along with the exile Sonya declared, Nicholae was finding it hard to convince the humans in No man's land to give him blood out of the goodness of their hearts.
And he wasn't willing to take it by force, so he'd reached a compromise: animals.
To survive he fed on the animals he caught in his hunts and traps. He quickly learned that his body now preferred drinking blood from a live host. The prepackaged ones like the one Fauna has just offered, left him feeling sick and had him throwing up.
He pulled out the struggling creature from the box and bit into it.
A Tchkovsky was lowered to this.