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Again Damien followed Ivan through the gangways. Soon they found a small room, where the monks had put their few tools and some things for cleaning. There was a lot of dust in the room and when Damien opened the door, he coughed a bit. He tried to hide his fangs with his hands. But he wasn’t sure, if he had been careful enough. He hoped the boy, would think, he had seen wrong, of he had gotten a glimpse of his fangs. ”I’ll dig the holes and you can help me carry the bodies, when I’m ready.” He would have been able, to do it alone, but it would have been a bit suspicious if he carried a few of the heavy bodies alone.

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Willkin nodded. ”I don’t think he will manage to get free. You don’t have to worry. But perhaps we should join the others now. I don’t want to let them wait any longer. Are the others awake as well?”He opened the door and held it open for Elizabeth.

Kathrina took the milk from Johnny and petted his had a little. "Thank you very much. Where are the others?"

Damien was stronger again. He had rested enough in the dark room and Salivia's blooed had helped him as well. So it didn't take him too long, to dig one big hole in the garden. "I'm sorry, we can't burry them proper. But it would take to much time to dig a hole for every one of them." His hands were dirty, when he went to Ivan. "You are a strong little boy. It must have been hard to stay here..."

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”I see, so they will all be here soon, so we can have breakfast together. I’ll warm up some milk for all of us. Last night was really exciting again and you all should get a good breakfast. Can you get your brother and your sister as well? I don’t know, I hope Eric is already dressed.” Kathrina went into the kitchen with the milk and put a pot on the ofen to warm it up. A few minutes later she came back to the table and put some cups down for everyone.

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Willkin left Elizabeth for a few minutes to clean his hands. When he came to the table, Kathrina already had set it. He took one of the free seats and waited for the others to come as well. Diane seemed to have helped Kathrina getting the breakfast ready. She was already there as well and sat not far away from him. ((I just decided to let her sit down, becuase it would be funny, if she had been standing without saying a word in the room for a few minutes))

The sun was shining hot on them, while they buried the dead monks. Damien did most of the work. The boy, Ivan, seemed to be too occupied to pay much attention on the other. When he finally stepped on the earth, he cleaned his hands on his blood spilled coat. He hadn’t have any time to clean his clothes, since they had fought with this damn demon. Looking at the claw marks and other traces, he was sure, it had been the same demon, that had killed the humans here. One day he would find him again and this time he wouldn’t let him go this easy. He murmured some words. ”Rest in peace and sat down in the grass. It had been very exhausting to work for hours in the bright sunlight. His reddish eyes hurt. Perhaps he should get back and look for Salivia and get some rest again. It would be better, not to make her suspicious. And if he stayed longer in the sun and drained himself, more vampiric features would appear. He still had to be careful.

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Willkin gave Elizabeth a smile, when she put her hand on his. He caressed her fingers a little with his other hand and then turned to Diane to great her as well. "Good morning, Diane. " In the doorway apeared Rosalie. He wondered, if she wanted to give them company for breakfast. He knew, vampires usually didn't have to eat normal food. But of course they could. "Did you get some rest as well, Rosalie?" He moved a bit closer to Elizabeth, so everybody would have enough space at the table.

Kathrina gave ecerybody a cup of milk. "You should all eat enough today. The last few days were really exhausting and exciting and there is nothin better then a good breakfast." She smiled a little. Although they still had problems and one of them was missing, it was good to stay together and have some good time only for short.

Of course Damien could hear the boy cry and smell the salty water. Gently he laid an arm around the others shoulder and tugged him a little closer to him. For the first time he understood the human next to him very well. He had faced something like this, when he had still been a small boy as well. The people of his village had been killed by something. He wasn’t sure, but it could have been Salivia. He didn’t say much, while sitting next to the boy. Damien thought it was better to let them have their own thoughts for now. Later he would have to leave the boy for a few hours and look for Salivia.

Damien let the boy cry until his tears finally stopped. He wasn't used, to have a human this close to him, but he didn't move. He didn't touch the boy. He would only recognice, that his body was colder then usually and Damien wasn't in the mood to reveal himself and answer any questions. They would never see again, so there was no need in scaring this boy anymore. "You should get everything eatable you can find from the kitchen and leave for the next place, where humans live as soon as possible. This isn't a place, where the living should be staying anymore." He stared at the grave they had digged for the monks. He only hoped, somebody had been as kind as them and had burried the people of his own village long ago, too. Damien didn't know, who had killed his whole family and everybody, who had known him, while he had been with Salivia. He hadn't been able to protect anybody back then. Perhaps his misstress was right. If he fleed her again, he would only indanger someone he liked again. He didn't exactly know, what he felt for Diane, but he didn't want her to get into danger again because of him. Willkin and this other vampire would be able to protect her for him. He could only keep Salivia from them. There wasn't much, he could do. He only hoped, they weren't stupid enough to search for him.
And then he recognised something. Although the boy next to him seemed to have calmed down a little, he couldn't let him rest like this. Down in the crypt somebody was waking up. And she would be irritated, if she couldn't find him. "I'm sorry, but you have to hide yourself once more. There is a woman with me, who shouldn't see you. She can be as cruel as the demon you saw..." He didn't want to frighten Ivan, but if Salivia saw the boy, she would kill him for sure.

[[There are two options. Salivia will wake up now, if she finds the boy, Damien will try to save him. And if she doesn't sense anything, she will take him to her mansion immediatly. If Ivan survives, he could meet Willkin, Diane and the others eventually and tell them about Damien....]]

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Kathrina listened to the conversation and looked up from the bread she was buttering for Eric. "If you want to rest, you can use my room. I want need it until tonight." She didn't know much amput vampires, but she knew, it had been a stressfull time for these heroes and there were more dangerous things going to cross their path.

Willkin nodded. "You shouldn't overstrain yourself, Rosalie. I don't know, if this is a good idea, but I'm sure, Diane wants to go after Damien. We don't know, what's lying in front of us." The lycan looked at Diane, when he had ended the first sentence. "And there is another thing, we have to decide. We can't let this mad wolf stay in the village. He is much to wily to let him unguarded. But if we take him with us, he will try to make us trouble again." Both options weren't good, but Willkin didn't want to kill the man like this. At the moment, he was their captive and he wouldn't hurt somebody, who wasn't able to defend himself.

Jack came to the table as well. He had been getting up a bit later then usually. The lumberjack hadn't heard the whole conversation. He went to Eric and set the boy on his lap. "Are you going to stay a bit longer this time or do you have to leave again?"

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((I will post on this soon...I am almost done reading through it all....and I do have some ideas...so it has been five years that Damien has been gone? I say that Diane has been off with Rosaline trying to find him...perhaps she will show up soon to visit with Will and Elizabeth...and I can have the boy show up there shortly after...kinda give them new hope....maybe perhaps the boy had been trained to track? And although it is hard to track a vampire..he tracked Damien and Salivia down to the castle? So he can tell them that he maybe last saw Damien alive about a year previous? And what about Xavier and his brother?....oooh...thought! maybe Elizabeth could be....*dramatic drum roll* pregnant!....I think that was the reason the demons killed her right? Is that what we discussed before?))