Key the Steampunk Vampire Girl and the Dungeon of Despair (9780989878531) by Becket

Author:Becket
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smashwords

— CHAPTER FIFTEEN —

Future Key, Crinomatic, & Gossamingles

Nights in Despair became weeks; weeks became months; months became years. Years became decades. And in all that time, Key did not grow old. She was a vampire, so she had the gift of immortality. She would look like a nine-year-old girl for the rest of her nights.

After ten years in the Dungeon of Despair, she stopped celebrating holidays. After thirty years locked away, she stopped celebrating her mom and dad’s birthdays. And after fifty years of being abandoned and forgotten, she stopped celebrating her own birthdays also – although she knew she should have called it “birth-night” like the other vampires, yet Key didn’t want to, because she wanted to feel more normal, the way she used to feel living with her mom and dad. And so as time slowly passed in Despair, Key soon stopped hoping that her life was only a nightmare, she stopped hoping that things would be different, and she began to accept that she had been completely abandoned to her abysmal fate.

The night Key turned one hundred years old felt like the loneliest of her entire life. She had come to the general conclusion that she would have to live in Despair forever. You see, from her point of view, when all was said and done, she had been in prison for one hundred years without any hope of escape – yes, one hundred years of being chained to Despair, one hundred years of never turning into a ten-year-old girl. Of course, after her first year in prison, technically, she aged from nine years old to ten, but at the time, it did not seem like she had reached that all-important age of ten because she didn’t feel older than nine, and she didn’t look older than nine either, nor did she have anyone to tell her, “You’re in your double digits now. You’re growing up!” No, from her point of view, her first year in Despair was not the year she turned ten, but the year she became one – one year old as a vampire, one year old in Despair. Yes, technically, she was now one hundred nine years old, but she didn’t count her first nine mortal years living with her mom and dad. Those first nine years of mortal life were more like a dream than reality. And now that she was a one hundred year old vampire in the nightmare of Despair, she still felt as though the threshold of being a ten-year-old girl was far, far out of reach.

But it only seemed proper to Key that, while she had not celebrated a birthday in over forty years, she should at least remember her one-hundredth birthday. “After all,” she said to herself encouragingly, “you don’t turn one hundred years old every night.” So, shortly before the Necropolis Clock Tower tolled twelve times, marking the exact moment when one day ended and another began, when she would no longer be ninety-nine years old

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