Elizabeth Lapthorne - [Montague Vampires 03] - Flaming Fantasies by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-14T01:34:06+00:00

Chapter Seven

Somewhere in the middle of space

“What the five hells do you mean you don’t believe in the elixir of life? How else do you bloody well think Barnaberry came back from the dead in the Eternal War of 2144?”

Chandra unbuckled her safety harness and stood up so she was able to stalk around the back of the ship’s cabin. She ran a seriously agitated hand through her short hair and tried not to pull the strands out with the sheer force of her annoyance with the vampire who so calmly sat in the pilot’s seat next to her. Nearly thirty hours of nonstop arguing and bitching with Gavreel Montague and she was ready to either push him out the air lock, stab him a million times with the nearest pointy object, or just scream herself hoarse from the frustration she felt clawing at her every pore. And it wasn’t just intellectual frustration she felt in Gavreel’s presence. Oh no. For some reason she couldn’t fathom, she was getting more hot and bothered the longer she stayed in Gavreel’s company. She had always been a loner, preferring her texts and research to the parties and assorted wars many of her kind preferred.

Both her parents had been renowned vampiric researchers and explorers, bringing home many a rare artifact and tome to the Colonial Vampiric Library.

Their names were in a place of pride on the plaque in the main foyer, both having died tragically in the XXIVth Tome War on Jargig a hundred or more years ago.

It had been they who had taught Chandra to never quit on a theory, to never be dismayed if she were on the outskirts of a hypothesis. Until they had gathered the proof, no one had believed their theory of the Goddess having many faces, and a cousin who had founded the Vampiric Race on Owanus. Yet now it was not only the pervading theory but the only one officially taught in the university, everyone else’s theories being the ones now shunned and ostracized. There were a few other interlinking theories which were highly acclaimed, but her parents’ had the most backing, and the most literary support. Yet her parents, for all Chandra had loved them, were so often entrenched in their own philosophies and theories they had often overlooked their child, and then practically ignored their adult offspring for months or at some stages even years at a time.

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The lack of family support had made Chandra feel isolated, even as a young child. Yet books had always managed to fill the void she so regularly felt inside her. Even though her parents and many of their contemporaries assumed Chandra had followed

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into the academic lifestyle as merely a dutiful child, or even to carry on her parents’ work, in reality Chandra had long held an affinity for books and research.

For many, many years, it had been the only solace in a rather bleak, empty galaxy she had found herself trapped in.

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