Full Moon Rising : Chapter 7

 Salina opened her eyes and squinted at the bright light. She chuckled softly realizing the "bright light" was coming from the dull flame of a candle. A loud scratching noise came from the wall behind her head, covering her ears she placed the noise as a mouse crawling through the walls. Sniffing lightly at the air she caught the awful stench of iron, blood. Glancing around, Salina didn't notice any blood in her room or on her so it must be somewhere else in the building. How could she smell blood from a different room? How could the light from a candle practically blind her? How could she hear a mouse in the walls? How were her senses so acute? She carefully pulled herself into a sitting position on the bed. Reaching up to brush her hair back, she felt a gauze pad taped to the left side of her neck, right where Karayan had... wait.

  "Karayan killed me, he slit my throat. How am I still alive? How am I still alive and not in incredible amounts of pain? Ah, here comes the one who can answer all my questions," thought Salina as the man in her thoughts casually waltzed into her room from yet another hidden door she could never find.

  "How are you feeling?" asked Karayan, concern flooding his voice.

  "Good. Which is completely ironic since you just slit my throat, what was it four hours ago? How did I know when it was? For all I know its been days... And why can I hear mice in the walls and smell blood from my room? You have a hell of a lot of explaining to do."

  "Ugh. Can we do this a bit later? I know you feel strong but you're really not."

  "Excuse me? What do you know about how I'm feeling? Because right now, I don't feel weak, I feel betrayed. You feed me this crap about being queen and loving me and then you try to kill me! You bastard! I'll fucking show you who's God damned weak!" With this Salina swung her legs over the side of her bed and attempted to stand. The room began to spin and she fell forward only to be caught by Karayan and have him cradle her in his lap on the bed.

  "I did not feed you lines, Salina. I told you from the very beginning that I wouldn't gain anything from lying to you, and I have never told you an untruth. I have however omitted certain details." He looked away and loosened his grip on Salina after saying this. He wanted her to have the option to leave him right now. It didn't matter whether or not she heard him out. That was her choice, and he had forced her into so much. No, he was determined that from now on, any choice she made would be her own.

  "What didn't you tell me?" Salina couldn't look at him. Not telling her something was just as bad as lying. She was clueless when it came to everything that was going on and he thought it was ok to just leave shit out? How could he profess to love her and yet do something like this? She was absolutely disgusted. The thought of him, of vampires, of everything, made her want to throw up.

  "I didn't tell you what would happen after you blackedout. I couldn't. It doesn't make it right, but I do have a reason for doing what I did. You see, I was afraid if you knew what was going to happen, you would have said know just because you were afraid. Time was running out and if we hadn't done the ceremony last night, you would have been too ill to consent to anything. I was afraid that while you were willing to die for me, you might not have been as willing to live forever with me." Karayan mumbled out the last part looking at the ground as he slid her off of him and back into bed. He looked postively ashamed, and well he should after what he did.

  "You mean... I'm a... One of...a vampire?" whispered Salina.

  "I'm so sorry Salina, so very sorry. But... yes, you're one of us."