0249: The Vampire's Daughter, Book Three

After they sent Susan to bed, Mina and Mary walked outside and got into their chauffer driven car.

After Mina directed the driver to take them to a club in the nearby city, Mary put up the privacy shield.

"Did you finish your conversation?" she asked.

"No."

"You know you won't win the argument no matter how hard you try."

"What do you mean by that?" Mina asked.

"She's an odd girl. In fact, she freaks me out sometimes. I stood and watched as she cowed my sire, Tobias. He was one of the cruelest and most powerful vampire's I have ever known.

"I know you are of the four, but he was an ancient. She stood her ground when even a vampire would have cowered. And she is only a little girl."

"Well, I hope she does stand her ground with me. I hope she always stands her ground. I'm not here to hurt her and I think the ability to handle confrontation is important," Mina said.

"You don't understand what I'm saying. She is special. It's as if she has powers like ours, but she is human. More than once I've seen her seemingly read someone’s mind or predict the future.

"Hell, I think Sabastian only let you live because that little girl said you were important."

"That may or may not be so," Mina said with a chuckle, "but it doesn't change my feelings on the matter. If she has some otherworldly power, which you know I believe to be true, I want to know what she sees and thinks.

"For whatever reasons we are both compelled to help her. There must be a reason. The only way we'll find out is to talk to her about it."

"While that's true," Mary said, "I'm almost afraid to know."

"As am I," Mina said, leading into a silence that lasted until they arrived at the club. It was an old factory that had been converted into a dance club. The pair had stayed until closing almost every night since they arrived in the country. In fact, they were such a fixture, that they were welcomed in by name, and before the line of guests still waiting outside for the chance to be admitted.

The music was loud inside and the lights flickered and gyrated to the beat, but the two vampires paid little attention. They simply walked into the undulating crowd and selected victims. Mary selected a man while Mina took a woman.

They brought their respective victims to a private room that Mina had booked for several weeks. There the vampires took the blood they needed, sending their victims back to the floor when they were done.

"It always amazes me how easy it is," Mary said.

"Yes, you would think it would be harder. But it isn't. If only more of our kind could control the blood lust, we might live more peaceably with the humans and each other."



[The Vampire's Daughter: An ongoing vampire story. Copyright Reuben Gregg Brewer, 2005, 2006. All rights reserved.]
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