Vampires of Maze (Part Five) (Beautiful Immortals Series Two Book 5) by Tim O'Rourke

Author:Tim O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwoodgreys
Published: 2016-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I saw the look of disgust on Calix’s face as I confessed to him that I had once been in love with a vampire. But my confession had started and I couldn’t stop now. Besides, I wasn’t so sure that I wanted to.

“His name was Theo,” I started, breaking Calix’s stare and looking back toward the Hill. “We met way before the war, when there was a fragile peace between the humans, the werewolves, and the vampires. As you are probably aware, mixing between the Wicce and the Beautiful Immortals was forbidden. It was feared that if a child was born out of such a mixing it would be an abomination. Although supernatural, the Wicce are more humanlike than either a vampire or werewolf. Both female vampires and werewolves only carry their young for six weeks before the infant is born. But a Wicce will gestate for a full nine months like a human. It was feared that should a mixing occur between a Wicce and a Beautiful Immortal, the child would not go full term, as the species were so very different.

“My life had been pretty much planned out for me by my parents, and I think it was this that I kicked against and the reason why I went looking for love in places that were forbidden to me. My parents were high up on the Wicce council and they had plans and visions that one day I would marry some noble warlock or wizard. But I had other plans. I was barely sixteen when I strayed too far from home one day and crossed the border into the vampires’ domain. My straying into their territory was no accident. I’d gone deliberately, driven by my curiosity about the Beautiful Immortals that I’d heard so much about. In those days, the vampires, the werewolves, and the humans lived separately but in peace. This peace, however, was fragile and a deep mistrust still blighted any relationships forged between the different species. It was the Wicce who had negotiated, years before, the peace that existed between humans, vampires, and werewolves. But the humans still believed the world belonged to them and they tolerated the supernatural creatures, which had been living in secret amongst them for time unknown. Over centuries, the werewolves and vampires had grown in number until it was impossible for them to live amongst the humans in secret anymore. As the realisation that the humans shared the Earth with supernatural creatures became widespread, the humans began to fear them. After all, don’t we all fear what we don’t truly understand? The humans feared that the towns, villages, and cities would soon be overrun by the vampires and werewolves that had decided to reveal themselves and who no longer wished to live in secret.

“So it was decided that the werewolves would live far away from the humans in caves and in mountains while the vampires were to live in secure encampments on the outskirts of the towns and the villages where the humans lived.

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