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This is a part from my story "Crimson Moon" Anna Nelson is a |
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"Please," she said urgently, "listen to me first. I can help. I've been closer to the heart of the Vampire Empire then anyone you're likely to find again. I know how they think, I can guess what they'll do. You wonder why you should trust me, what's whats made me leave them? It's simple: they're going to kill my daughter, They daren't let her live. The moment I found out who she is--what she is-- what the humans prophesy about her-- I knew I had to leave the empire;I knew I was their enemy, and they were mine. I didn't know what you all were, or what I was to you--that was a mystery; but I knew that I had to set myself against the empire, against everything they belived in, and if need be, against Zoran himself. I..." She stopped All the comanders were listening intently. Now she looked Nodytay full in the face and seemed to speak to him alone, her voice low and passonate, her brilliant eyes glittering. "I've been the worst mother in the world. I let my only child be taken away from me when she was a tiny infant, because I didn't care about her; I was conserned only with my own advancement in the empire. I didn't think of her for years, and if I did, it was only to regret the emmbaresment of her birth. "But then the empire began to take intrest in the crimson moon and in children, and something stirred in my heart, and I remembered that I was a mother and Tahkile was... my child. "And because there was a threat, I saved her from it, but even as I did that, I still felt myself part of the empire, a servant, a loyal and faithful and devoted servant, because I was doing Zoran's work. "And then I learned the humans' prophesy. Tahkile will somehow, sometime soon, bring about either the end of the world, or the start of a new one. It's not hard to imagine. And now that the empire knows that, too, they'll kill her. If it all depends on her, could they risk letting her live? Would they dare take the chance that she'd refuse this propasition, whatever it will be? "No, they're bound to kill her. If they could, they'd go back to the begining of time and stop the birth of nature, the birth of humanity and life itself. They'd kill her with pomp and ceremony and prayers and lamentations and paslms and hymns, but they would kill her. If she falls into their hands, she's dead already. "So when I heard what the mage said, I saved my daughter. I took her to a place where I kept her safe, and there I was going to stay."
elk311 · Wed May 04, 2005 @ 01:15am · 1 Comments |
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