Night
Part 4In shock, and desperation, Petty attempted to shoot upright away from the thing that stared at him, but as his muscles contracted, pain wracked his body and with only a few centimetres moved, Petty found himself falling back to laying position with a grumble. “And good morning to you too, Mr Zakfein” huffed the feminine voice Petty let a long drawn out sigh leave his mouth, the slight discomfort of it didn’t show on the face of a irritated Petty. All I need, a vampire in my room…..My head on it’s lap…what could have happened? What did happen? “Watch thinking? You got that thinking look on your face, but you look sooooo cute when you are sleeping” giggled Rebekh. Petty just groaned as he slowly brought himself up to a sitting position and grumbled more as he pushed a mass of snow-white hair out of his face. So, the voice was her, how did she find me? Why did she find me? Must people bother me, what does she want? Can she still read my thoughts? Rebekh brought her legs up and sat crossed legged on the bed and leaned back on her hands to watch Petty before speaking “You know, I can’t read your thoughts no more…when you woke up the connection was severed…..took me a lot of effort to just connect when you was sleeping, tough nut to crack you is…” “…….SHADOW!? What did you do to shadow?” “Oh, that nice wolfy? It didn’t like me too much so I…..tied him up!?” Rebekh squirmed under the stare, which was directed at her from Petty. Off Petty shuffled, across his room and there as Rebekh had stated was Shadow Vein, mostly disgruntled at the sticky web which entangled him. “What is this stuff?” “Ooh! Just webbing from a spell I had to cast on him, didn’t want to wake you up did I?” “Better not have hurt him” growled Petty. “Oh no no no! You love him a lot don’t you?” “…..” “Go on! You can admit it, I think it is cute!” teased Rebekh. “…Shut up!” Rebekh just giggled. Looking down, Petty noticed a pool of blood, and a trail leading across the room to his bed, then more alarming was the fact that Petty was deprived of his boots and top, where his wound was situated was now a ragged piece of…Dress? “….You removed some of my clothes?” “Yup! And had to rip my dress to cover that nasty wound you had.” “…had?” “Yup yup! I healed it a little I could, but was a lot more bad that I could heal, but I stopped the bleeding at least!” a sense of pride echoed in Rebekhs voice as she talked. Petty wondered over to his grim covered window and wiped a little bit of it away, a fine jet of light shot through the newly cleaned area of window and across the room, sending Rebekh reeling away with a hiss. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?” “…..” “You DO know what sunlight will do to me?” “…yes” “……” Petty turned his way back toward Rebekh, whose face was plastered with fear. With a slight shrug Petty made his way over to his book, sat down and started to jot down notes on his encounter with the Lich and his friends. “That is a interesting book you have there” Rebekh commented, a slight tang of fear still shaking her voice. “Would rather you not had read it” “Nothing stopping me” “….” “But I know what could stop people reading it!” “Yes?” “Well, could put all runes on it” nodded Rebekh. “Runes?” “Yes! Runes to stop people opening it! “You can do that? And still let me read it?” “Yes yes! Simple really! Not too good ones though, I never got that far really…..anywho!! Would stop a lot of people getting in, unless they have a lot of will!” “……Anyway of getting better wards?” “Well, could try looking in books, a lot of magic books in libraries, I have a few too!” “Could you put some runes on my book then?” “Nope! Not right now, but I could maybe tomorrow night or something.” “…..you found me, how?” “Well! You were bleeding pretty badly, and I just followed the smell of your blood, plus it was rather splogged here and there! You got very interesting blood, could follow you for ages and ages and not get bored, or lost.” Petty inwardly cringed at the thought of a deranged bloodhound following him wherever he bleeds, but she did seem to be earnest in her attempts to help, that bothered Petty a lot, he was never one to trust people, or care but this vampire hadn’t bitten him, or hurt him….what did she want? “Stop that!” Rebekh pouted “I can’t read thoughts, if you have something to say, you hafta say it so I can hear!”
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