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The oppressive sun's light weighed down on her more heavily when she was thirsty.
Akiza walked in the light of the day and pretended like all was well. She pretended like she was but a "Penitent", as those with magic were called here in Gild, and not something more...dangerous. But the thirst gnawed at her. It gnawed at her and she was reluctant to do what she had always done when taking shelter in cities across the world.
It was part of the deal, wasn't it? The deal she had willingly accepted. Shortly after arriving in Gild, she had been caught; she, admittedly, underestimated the Gildans, and knew nothing of the "Regulators" of their Church. But the man who caught her, Boesarius Terral, did not kill her. Instead, he had made her an offer, one that was hard to refuse when she was hanging from chains and completely at his mercy. If she joined and swore allegiance to this secretive group of "Devils" of which he was a part, then she would be spared. Of course she took the deal. She was a survivor.
Three catches came with the deal. One, no one outside the Devils could know that she was a vampire, or she would be disowned and killed. Two, she had to become a Penitent, and that would be her cover. Three, she could not feed on any Gildan citizen.
Akiza was not opposed to traveling outside the bounds of Gildan territory to feed. That part was trivial, and it required not a whit of magic to do surreptitiously. She needed to feed. Soon. Yet she felt this reluctance. Ever since accepting the deal, she had felt said reluctance, and she had yet to feed.
And, tacitly, she knew why.
So now came the late afternoon of the day, the sun firmly on its downward arc toward the west. She waited in the shade of a tree in the courtyard of the Temple of the Everburning Flame.
She waited for the chance to spot Boesarius Terral himself.
Akiza walked in the light of the day and pretended like all was well. She pretended like she was but a "Penitent", as those with magic were called here in Gild, and not something more...dangerous. But the thirst gnawed at her. It gnawed at her and she was reluctant to do what she had always done when taking shelter in cities across the world.
It was part of the deal, wasn't it? The deal she had willingly accepted. Shortly after arriving in Gild, she had been caught; she, admittedly, underestimated the Gildans, and knew nothing of the "Regulators" of their Church. But the man who caught her, Boesarius Terral, did not kill her. Instead, he had made her an offer, one that was hard to refuse when she was hanging from chains and completely at his mercy. If she joined and swore allegiance to this secretive group of "Devils" of which he was a part, then she would be spared. Of course she took the deal. She was a survivor.
Three catches came with the deal. One, no one outside the Devils could know that she was a vampire, or she would be disowned and killed. Two, she had to become a Penitent, and that would be her cover. Three, she could not feed on any Gildan citizen.
Akiza was not opposed to traveling outside the bounds of Gildan territory to feed. That part was trivial, and it required not a whit of magic to do surreptitiously. She needed to feed. Soon. Yet she felt this reluctance. Ever since accepting the deal, she had felt said reluctance, and she had yet to feed.
And, tacitly, she knew why.
So now came the late afternoon of the day, the sun firmly on its downward arc toward the west. She waited in the shade of a tree in the courtyard of the Temple of the Everburning Flame.
She waited for the chance to spot Boesarius Terral himself.