Chapter 221
During this time, Cian was forced to learn the Master’s language, which sometimes caused him to e word The language was one of hard and soft consonants, of vowels that both felt and sounded like it occasions he found himself compelled to speak he had to fight the grimace that wanted to thede
“Why not do as your Master had?,” Cian heard himself ask one day, stumbling over the unfamiliar cyllander
words.
whe
all teeth and no warmth The Master glanced up, meeting his eye, then smiled that unnerving smile of his was Turned.” The vampire’s smile spoke of pain and promised despair, both things Cian felt he’d had enough of to last sett
no need to ask for more.
Cian wondered if he would also forget how he’d been turned. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he pushed that unnerving Perhaps he shouldn’t have asked the question at all.
“You are a good human,” the Master continued after a moment. “You do exactly as you’re told and don’t fuss in the least. That town taking my time with you. You will be my pride and joy.”
And that’s what Cian became; his Master’s pride and joy. It took ten years for the exchanged drops of blood to successfully Turn the human. The final two years of this process had been agony, his body rebelling against human food while not yet able to survive on blood
alone.
When he finally woke as a vampire, Cian found himself bombarded by the world. The sounds, the smells… His vision was pristine and every little detail jumped at him like an assault against his eyes. Even the feel of things he touched was too much to bear. And then there
bottomless. Even after drinking his fill, Cian wanted more was the hunger; dear god, the hunger. It felt monstrously huge
“No,” the Master snapped, voice firm. For some reason, Cian listened to the man. Perhaps it was from a decade of willingly following orders, but there was something more to it than that. Almost like an invisible force was able to take control of his body and force him into submission. “You have drunk enough. It is time I give you what I promised all those years ago.”
–
what had been
What he’d promised? Cian’s thoughts were a muddled mess. What had been promised? Wasn’t this – being Turned promised? “Your… promise?,” he managed to ask after running his tongue along his teeth his fangs – and marvelling at how thes feit
“Yes. Vengeance for your wife and child.”
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