New Blood

Lavender

If you had asked me once if I lived a peculiar life I would have laughed once. How was I supposed to know I was in the dead center of some cult?

I would wake up with the other girls , make the bed , wash my face , brush my teeth with the charcoal toothpaste they gave us. Get dressed in my pristinely maintained white dress with the high collar and rush to the gathering room where we would socialize with the girls of all ages before we were separated into groups of our age.

As a seventeen year old girl I was a senior and was now learning child care and home structure economics as soon I would be paired with an magi husband and was expected to contribute and take care of his household.

It was a simple life where every step I needed to make had been mapped out for me , and I never needed to think for myself. In fact I was so brainwashed by the the church of human order , I never once questioned anything and was even excited to get married soon. I had always enjoyed playing with the younger girls and helping watch over them so I couldn't wait to have my own children and raise them.

Not that it ever worked that way.

If I had the sense to question anything at all I would have seen that years earlier. That would all soon change though.

"Lavender!" I saw her on that october morning before everything changed , her hair a mess despite its gift of eternal straightness . A gift that Violet wholly unappreciated. Still though she always had a way to make her hair tangle and mat in strange places under the mass of its auburn weight , and relied on me to untangle it tediously even more then some of the youngest girls.

This day was no different and I soon found myself gesturing for her to sit down as I untangled her hair with a fine bone comb. Bone was after all a material that was always in abundance .

"You should take better care of your hair." I muttered playing with a particularly fierce hair rat. She rolled her eyes , even though I didn't see this for myself I could tell with the gesture her shoulders and neck did and the exasperated sigh.

"And pray tell why should I bother? Especially when you'll fix it for me?"

"Have you ever thought I might have better things to do?" I asked laughing .

She went stiff and I stopped startled. It hadn't been the reaction I expected. Even though Violet was sometimes unpredictable the shift of mood was fast even for her. The next thing she said was in a low voice. A serious voice not heard from her often.

"Lavender... What would you be doing?" A husky sound almost that made me uncomfortable.

"Helping out with the young ones? They always need my help , little rose cant even spell her own name and mother Lily hasn't been helping at all. You would think she's lost all faith in our upbringing."

"Well maybe she has." That same voice in a brisk and short slice through the ending of my sentence like the sharpest of blades running through a flower petal. Why was she talking like that? What had upset her? I took a moment to form the next sentence but that too was cut off as I opened my mouth.

"Lavender I don't think that the things they tell us are all true." Her voice was low and hushed like I imagined the low growl of a wolf in warning.

"What are you talking about? Who the younger ones? I promise you little rose is no genius with letters , Ive been trying to teach her myself."

"No I don't mean that. Listen Lavender you can't tell anyone this , promise that what I say next will stay between you and me?" She turned around and looked me straight in the eye standing up and looking up at me. She was shorter then me by several inches and one of the things I always loved was how when she needed to rely on me It made me feel so much stronger then I really was. In this instance It was no different.

I hugged her close and I promised her.

She backed away and looked at me with a serious expression seldom seen on her face.

"You know how we aren't ever allowed to talk to anyone ever? Not outside the walls of the school? "

The school was a massive building that had once been a hospital. At the beginning of the apocalypse,, it had been walled off and barricaded around for several blocks with chain link walls with sharp barbed wire spiraling on the top. A fence that had solar turret lights at every possible entrance to keep out vampires, ghouls, and other light-sensitive monsters. It had worked since at the time humankind was still abundant and rich for the taking in most other places. Why work for dinner when it could be handed to you only a little walk away?

After the apocalypse the survivors of the brigade had reinforced it, even more, building a small settlement within it, living in the old rich houses of the area, growing off the land in the quiet of the falling world. The school was where the hospital once was, and it was especially fortified with a large unclimbable wall made from the mud bricks of the settlement that had been renamed 'Mercy city'  We bosted the highest population in the local human settlements at a total of almost three hundred .  I was told through that swamp land had pretty much surrounded the once suburban life and it was far from the new roads any vampire would take making our lives safe and free from vampire overlords.

I didn't, of course, know what the settlement looked like outside the wall of the school since I, of course, was never allowed to actually see it. We as the daughters of magi blood had a responsibility to stay as safe and clean as possible for the future of humanity.

"Your blood is the last hope we have of producing the holy enchanter that will break us all free from the clutches of demons that now plague our world!" I had all but memorized Matron mother Camellia. She had read us the scriptures of the Angel journal for as long as I had memories.

We were not to leave in our time of metamorphoses into magi brides, we were not to consult with others from outside the school as it might taint our pure and clean minds and souls and we were to pray daily with meditation etc.

So yes I knew very well how we were not allowed to talk to anyone. So the real question is what was Violet actually telling me? I was fairly certain my silence spoke for itself as my friend stared at me intensely.

"Well, I broke the rules. Lavender...everything they have ever told us ...its a lie."

Hi I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and enjoy the next ones. The next six or so chapters were written a year ago , but I sort of dropped off from the project for a bit. When I originally made this I decided to challenge myself to write daily but I wanted to work with a much darker theme then my usual style and push myself to my limits . Know that these chapters are more or less draft chapters but apparently the only way I know how to write is sort of making it up as I go and figuring it out. Basicly I must walk ahead blindly because If I know the future I panic? Well please vote and comment <3 If you like being a beta reader message me if your intrested and you can point out errors and inconsitancys for me to check these are first drafts currently.