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The Crow
Mathew came through the door still stunned not only by the pleasant warmth but how suddenly his spirits had lifted.
Calador greeted him as a friend hugging him and offering him a drink. Mathew was taken aback this elf was so open hearted and generous, not many greeted a Vampire like this and meant it.
Lisa put Hope back in her drawer and said to Mathew. “Would you like to talk about it” “Talk about what ” enquired Rachel.
A look of sorrow, anger and pain crossed Mathew’s face as it all returned to him. ” I have killed Fay, I had to” Mathew sat down and to everyone’s horror he wept. Huge tears that ran down his face leaving red marks.
Rachel crossed the room to take him in her arms. The smell and touch of her helped. Mathew took a deep breath and told them all about Fay’s alience with Roman and the Ancients. How she wanted him to side with them. How he had fought with her to her ugly death…… Worst still how he felt he had been fighting Roman right up until she died when she had again become his sister.
Rachel was stunned and sickened to her stomach, the shock turned her into her Werewolf form. Lisa and Calador were not shocked, having physic powers they had known the second,the place and the method of her death.
Mathew turned to Lisa and asked… “How did you not know of her treachery, why did you not warn me?” Calador rose from his chair “she could not if known even I saw nothing untoward in her thoughts. Roman probably wove a spell over her to hide her true intentions”
Sighing Mathew lay down next to Rachel and stroked her coat, looking into her ice blue eyes he pleaded “come back to me Rachel I need you”
Lisastod and Calador picked up Hope and headed for the door,”We will watch the sunset from the roof” adding quietly as they left “we don’t need to be physic to know what they need to do” Lisa giggled as Calador put his arm around her waist. Then she felt a warm bubbling feeling in parts of her body that she thought had died with Mark. Calador looked into her eyes and said, telepathically “don’t feel guilty I ask nothing until or even if you are ever ready.” Lisa let out a sigh and smiled at this beautiful gentle Elf before her.
Back in the room as the sun set Mathew felt himself aroused as Rachel returned to her human form. Every bone in his body wanted her and he could see she felt the same.
They had sex, fast and furious on the floor in front of the fire,then Mathew carried Rachel to the bed and they slowly and gently, this time, made love…….
Out on the roof of the castle tower Calador and Lisa surveyed the frozen wastes outside the castle perimeter, such a contrast to their own Indian summer.
A crow that had been watching them from a nearby tree fluttered across and landed on Calador’s arm.
“Hello mister Crow and how are you?” Asked Lisa. The Crow looked from one to the other then said ” My name is Corvo and I have come to join you in your hour of need. I have many brothers and sisters and we want to side with you.”
“Then you are all welcome” said Lisa and Calador together as one.
The rest of story so far is here at Vampires, The Witch and the Warewolf.
If I sit here, silent,
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