0343: The Vampire's Daughter Book IV

“She is your heir,” the vampire said. “You have come back to us to cleanse our kind and protect their kind by passing on your obligations to her.”

Mina looked at Susan and then at the crowd. “Is this true?” she asked the little girl.

“I don't know,” Susan answered. With her mind, however, she said, “Regardless of the truth, I suggest we play along.”

Mina continued to look at her. Then, turning to the vampire, she said, “Neither she nor I know the truth of this. But I know a place that we can find out. She is young yet. I know she is very special, but I do not know if she is the one. It may take years, but they will discern the truth. I am certain of it.”

“Then you must take her there and find out what we already know by the prophecies.”

“What prophet told you of our coming and when?”

“When? I am not old enough to tell you, because it was before my time. But the prophet was not the one who told us, it was his scribe that told us.”

“So who were these people?”

“Not people Princess, vampires.” A murmur ran through the crowd.

“Fine, what vampires?”

“The Father was the prophet. The Keeper was the scribe.”

Mina looked at him for a long time before saying, “Then I believe I have no choice but to bring the little girl to learn of her true place in life.”

“Yes, you must,” the vampire said, moving out of the way and touching Susan as she walked by.

Mina's mind was rushing. Thoughts were flooding over her. Why had she been sent to the New World? Was it to watch Thomas or to find the little girl? Or, worse, to get rid of her... She knew her sire was aware of these prophecies and that they had been kept from her. Always kept from her, always altered to bend the truth to... She didn't want to think it.

How could she have been so blind? And she told her Sire about the little girl. She stopped and looked at Susan.

Susan smiled and said, “Yes, you have been betrayed.”

Mina dropped to her knees in front of Susan and held her close, she whispered, “I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,” in the little girl's ear.

“There's no need to be sorry,” Susan said, pushing Mina back and looking her in the eyes. “Things were meant to happen this way. And I said you were betrayed. I didn't say that you had betrayed me. That is a choice you will have to make in the future. Right now, we have a monk to visit.”

Mina kept looking at the small child in front of her. At times she was more knowing than any person or vampire Mina had ever met. At others she was a wide eyed little girl just looking to have fun and play. Flashes of the trip to China went through Mina's mind. Susan could be so innocent in one moment and then she would be like a different person. Could this little girl be what she thought she was? Could Mina's role have been predestined? Could her sire have kept this from her for so long? Could she have lived in ignorance for so long?

Mina stood up and looked uneasily over the crowd. “I can no longer play this game little one. I need to think and there is too much humanity here for that. Hold on to me as tightly as you can.”

Susan ran up to her and grabbed around her body with her arms and legs after Mina had picked her up. Mina held her tightly to her body with her own arms and then crouched down. Looking around at the rooftops, she jumped to the nearest. The crowd let out a shout of awe that Mina could hear as she continued from roof top to roof top out of the city.




[The Vampire’s Daughter: An ongoing vampire story. Copyright Reuben Gregg Brewer, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. All rights reserved.]