0339: The Vampire’s Daughter, Book Four
As the boat limped into port, Mina stood fully healed on the deck with Susan by her side. It was chilly and Susan was wearing a sailor's jacket.
“This is where you're from?” Susan asked.
“No. I'm not from here. I was born in what is now called Taiwan. Grew up a slave in Japan. Was made there and brought to China by my sire,” Mina answered.
The two stood silently and watched as the boat glided to the dock, hitting it with a jarring bang.
“I haven't set anything up,” Mina announced.
“That's OK,” Susan replied. “We'll stay on the boat tonight. Tomorrow we'll find someplace to stay.”
The next night, the pair disembarked just after sunset. As they walked through the boatyard and into the city, Mina said, “There have been many changes since I was last here. I’m not sure I…” She stopped abruptly and turned around.
“We are being watched,” Susan said simply.
“Yes. Do you know for how long?” Mina asked, looking at the girl.
“Since yesterday. There was a man outside the ship when I got up, too.”
“Then someone knows we are here. I wonder if they know who I am? I don’t think they are from my clan, but I can’t really tell.”
“We still have to find someplace to stay,” Susan said, shrugging her shoulders.
“Yes, child, yes we do,” was the reply.
They continued to walk, finding a small hotel where they booked a room. Shortly after settling in, there was a knock at the door.
Mina looked up at Susan, “How did they get so close without me sensing them?”
Susan said, “I don’t know.”
Mina walked to the door and opened it. Outside were two small Asian vampires. “May I help you?” she asked.
“Our sire would like to meet you,” one said.
Mina looked at the vampire for a moment and asked, “Who is your sire?”
“That’s not your concern just yet.”
She again looked at them for a moment, then said, “Am I expected to go to your sire or will your sire be visiting me?”
“We are to take you to him, now.”
“And if I refuse the invitation?”
“That isn’t an option.”
“And if I kill you both?” she asked casually.
The vampire who had not yet spoken smiled and said, “I would like to see you do that.”
“Well, I’m not going anywhere right now. I don’t know who controls this city anymore, but I am quite certain that there is little need for me to meet him. Moreover, if he knew who I was, he wouldn’t want to meet me. So, unless you wish to die, I suggest you go back to your sire and tell him that it just didn’t work out.”
The two vampires looked at each other and then lunged at Mina. The struggle was quick and it wasn’t clear to her exactly what happened after their initial attack, but she killed one quite quickly by breaking his neck. The other was killed by Susan, she had taken a chair broken it and sent a splintered leg through the back of the other vampire’s neck into and through his head.
Mina, who had been pushed to the floor in the first rush, looked up at Susan. Susan smiled at her and said, “We’ll need to move them into the sun. Or at least someplace that will get sun in the morning.”
“Yes, yes we will,” Mina replied, getting herself up off the floor. “How do you know that?”
“I’ve had to dispose of vampires before.”
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