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IV: Interlude

It was around midnight when Urara woke up. The moonlight filtered in through the dirty windows, illuminating the moderate-sized room. Her eyes fluttered open to meet the stern gaze of Kheyman, and a scream caught in her throat. She leaped out of the bed, but only made it halfway. Kheyman grabbed her by her hair and hauled her back, drawing from her a pain-filled cry. She tried desperately to escape, but his grip was like steel. He drew her close and clamped his right arm around her slender waist, trapping her against him. His breath was cold in her ear.

"What are you?" he growled softly.

"What are you talking about?" she protested just as quietly. She tried again desperately to escape. Kheyman whirled and slammed her down on the bed on her back. A terrified thought flashed through her mind- 'He's going to rape me!' "Let me go! Damn you!"

"Answer me!" he commanded. She shook her head furiously. Kheyman raised his right hand to hit her, and Urara immediately kicked him between the legs as hard as she could. Nothing happened; the cheap shot didn't work! Her eyes grew wide as he just smiled down at her, that odd thin-lipped smile that turned her blood cold. He leaned down till he was just a few inches above her. His lips were dangerously close to hers. "Don't make me kill you, girl. Tell me what you are."

"I don't know what you're talking about!"

He slapped her hard across the face.

"Get off me! I don't know what you're talking about! Please, let me go!" she cried, slamming the heels of her hands against his chest. The blades shot out of the knuckles of his android arm, and he brought his hand to the hem of the raw silk she wore as a nightshirt. She froze. The blades easily sliced through up to the side straps of her panties. Urara immediately broke free of him and scooted back till she was up against the wall beneath the window, grasping at the front of her shirt and drawing her knees up to her chin, staring at him with terror-stricken eyes. Kheyman stood back, gazing at the girl coldly.

"I examined your DNA, and I've found it's missing three strands. That means you are not fully human. Now, I'm wondering what you are. Are you going to answer of your own free will, or will I have to force it out of you one way or another?"

"I'll tell you," she said quietly.

"That's a good girl."

"My mother was human and my father... My father was a demon vampire. But he wasn't evil! At least he wasn't evil to me. I was an accident, that's what my mother told me. They abandoned me when I was only seven years old. My mother hated me, but I know my father loves me," Urara explained, remaining in her sitting position against the wall on the bed. "My father told me I was human, but I still had the dormant blood of a demon vampire. I suppose that's why I turned over so quickly."

"I have to say, you turned over faster than anyone I've come across yet," Kheyman told her.

"I didn't tell you because I was afraid you'd kill me," Urara said quietly. Kheyman's eyes narrowed at her.

"Normally I would have no choice, but because you've been an adequate help to me I will let you live," Kheyman told her with no emotion in his voice. Urara looked up at him.

"Thank you," she said softly. Kheyman just stared down at her with a wary eye. Then he turned and strode out of the room.

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